| 正面 | 8429.monumental 英 [mɒnjʊ'ment(ə)l]美 [,mɑnju'mɛntl]     |
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| 背面 |     释义： 1. It may have been a blend of *extufus 'take a steam bath' (source of English stew and stove) and late Latin stuppare 'stop up, plug' (source of English stop and stuff).2. stiff, stuff => stif- + -le (diminutive suffix) => stifle.3. 谐音“使袋封”------把袋子封死，使其窒息而死。adj. 不朽的；纪念碑的；非常的 例句： 1. I had a monumental run-in with him a couple of years ago.几年前，我和他大吵了一架。 monumental 不朽的，意义深远的来自monument,纪念碑。比喻用法。 monumental (adj.)c. 1600, "pertaining to a monument," from Late Latin monumentalis "pertaining to a monument," from monumentum (see monument). From 1650s in the loose sense of "vast, stupendous." Related: Monumentally." |