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hulking

/huhl-king/US // ˈhʌl kɪŋ //UK // (ˈhʌlkɪŋ) //

巨大的,庞大的,大块头,厚重的

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : heavy and clumsy; bulky.

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Examples

  • The hulking platforms of the Cold War, upon which we continued to invest a great deal of financial and operational resources, were suddenly far less relevant.

  • His downtown operation, a hulking leaden-blue building with giant fans, could be so exquisitely stinky that we kids would hold our breath and pray that the stoplight stayed green whenever we had to pass it.

  • The overall effect is reminiscent of a cheerful, hulking bubble.

  • Today, purpose-built expedition ships are a far cry from the hulking research vessels of old, and for new ships, luxury is most often the norm.

  • Today, the hulking structure sits abandoned across the street from the tavern like a gray wooden phantom.

  • Police Officer Daniel Pantaleo then sought to bring the hulking Garner down by yoking him around the neck.

  • A hulking defender breaks into the backfield and takes him down with a vicious clothesline tackle.

  • The beasts are huge, hulking, fast and unpredictable—tons of muscle, horn and thundering hooves.

  • Patinkin imbues Saul with a hulking presence that fills entire rooms.

  • The man who wrote about hulking linebackers nibbling melon in the Texas dusk.

  • A Dutchman—what you would call a Swede—a hulking beggar, came up from the fo'c'sle very much the worse for wear.

  • And I understood how it had come to pass that our hulking old ogre had fallen in love with her so desperately.

  • Careless Tom, or Hulking Tom (not necessarily in disapproval).

  • Who told her John had the fever—a great, strong, hulking fellow like that?

  • Mr. Wansley surveyed in silence the hulking, disordered figure now coming forward from the after companion.