单词 | colossus |
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音标 | [kə'lɔsəs] |
解释 | n.巨人;巨型雕像 |
红宝书 | 【英】 n. 巨人 (any important person or thing);巨型雕像 (a gigantic statue) 【考】 colossus : figurine / boulder : pebble(巨型雕像对小雕像/ 大卵石对小卵石) |
字源 | colossus (n.) "gigantic statue," late 14c., from Latin colossus "a statue larger than life," from Greek kolossos "gigantic statue," of unknown origin, used by Herodotus of giant Egyptian statues, and used by Romans of the bronze Apollo at the entrance to the harbor of Rhodes. Figurative sense of "any thing of awesome greatness or vastness" is from 1794. |
不择手段背单词 | n. 巨型雕像; 巨人(体积或重要性巨大的人) 【源】原指: 罗德斯巨型雕塑像, 世界七大奇迹之一, 高150多英尺 【类】colossus: figurine = boulder: pebble巨型雕像对小雕像 = 大石头对小卵石 |
趣味全助记 | 【记】column 巨大的柱子 想古罗马建筑 |
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