| 单词 | tremendous |
|---|---|
| 音标 | [tri'mendəs] |
| 解释 | a.惊人的；巨大的 |
| 红宝书 | 【英】 adj. 惊人的(may excite trembling or arouse dread);巨大的 (notable by extreme size, power, greatness or excellence) 【记】 来自tremble(颤抖)+e ndous→让人发抖的→ 惊人的 【例】 a tremendous amount of money |
| 字源 | tremendous (adj.) 1630s, "awful, dreadful, terrible," from Latin tremendus "fearful, to be dreaded, terrible," literally "to be trembled at," gerundive form of tremere "to tremble" (see tremble (v.)). Hyperbolic or intensive sense of "extraordinarily great or good, immense" is attested from 1812, paralleling semantic changes in terrific, terrible, dreadful, awful, etc. Related: Tremendously. |
| 不择手段背单词 | 无 |
| 趣味全助记 | 【记】源自trem- 震颤的 tremble 震动， + end 极点，震颤到极点，好莱坞电影中地面剧烈震颤时常是惊人巨大的恐龙，gozilla等走过来了；tree + men 象大树那么高的man，巨人 |
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