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colossus

/kuh-los-uhs/US // kəˈlɒs əs //UK // (kəˈlɒsəs) //

庞然大物,巨大的,巨人,巨型

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n.名词 noun
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    plural co·los·si [kuh-los-ahy], /kəˈlɒs aɪ/, co·los·sus·es.

    • : the legendary bronze statue of Helios at Rhodes.Compare Seven Wonders of the World.
    • : any statue of gigantic size.
    • : anything colossal, gigantic, or very powerful.

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Examples

  • That phase of colossus creation appears to have ended long ago.

  • On Monday, S&P Global announced it will merge with IHS Markit in a $44 billion all-stock deal, in the biggest corporate tie-up of 2020, creating a financial data colossus.

  • When he brought the idea of the colossus to America, the Civil War had ended just six years earlier.

  • He first pitched his idea of a female harbor colossus to Egypt but the deal fell through.

  • The literary world he helped found and nurture, and whose landscape he bestrode like the colossus he was—that world is gone.

  • And Bishop, Colossus, Warpath, Blink, Sunspot, Quiksilver, Stryker and Havoc will all be there too.

  • Edmund Morgan, 97 Diminutive, almost elfin in appearance, he bestrode his field like a colossus.

  • He believes, he has an instinct, that here is the heel of the German Colossus, otherwise immune to our arrows.

  • He beckoned to a superb officer, splendid in his trappings—a blue-eyed colossus of nearly six-feet-six.

  • Shelby thought that there was a slight chance that the colossus might be able to read his lips even though he could not hear.

  • The ungainly, lumbering motor-boat, with a hulking colossus balanced at the tiller, dropped behind.

  • The most eminent of this kind was the Colossus of Rhodes, a brazen statue of Apollo, one of the wonders of the world.