gargantua 的定义
- an amiable giant and king, noted for his enormous capacity for food and drink, in Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel.
- a satirical novel by Rabelais.
gargantua 近义词
等同于 colossus
更多gargantua例句
- All these initial chapters of “Monkey King” exhibit a rollicking exuberance, somewhat like Rabelais’s hyperbolic accounts of the giants Gargantua and Pantagruel.
- Rabelais wrote Gargantua here, in this city devoted to the most Pantagruelian of pleasures.
- After Honoré Daumier caricatured King Louis Philippe as Gargantua, he was sent to prison.
- Now the Gargantua of Dijon could once more lay hands on the broad lands of the fair Jacqueline.
- There was left only the monk to provide for; whom Gargantua would have made Abbot of Seuillé, but he refused it.
- The monk then requested Gargantua to institute his religious order contrary to all others.
- None did awake them, none did constrain them to eat, drink, nor do any other thing; for so had Gargantua established it.
- Gargantua can procure for you wealth, honors, and influence.