colossus

/kuh-los-uhs/US // kəˈlɒs əs //UK // (kəˈlɒsəs) //

庞然大物,巨大的,巨人,巨型

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
plural co·los·si [kuh-los-ahy], /kəˈlɒs aɪ/, co·los·sus·es.
- : the legendary bronze statue of Helios at Rhodes.Compare Seven Wonders of the World.
- : any statue of gigantic size.
- : anything colossal, gigantic, or very powerful.

noungiant thing

Synonyms

That phase of colossus creation appears to have ended long ago.
On Monday, S&P Global announced it will merge with IHS Markit in a $44 billion all-stock deal, in the biggest corporate tie-up of 2020, creating a financial data colossus.
When he brought the idea of the colossus to America, the Civil War had ended just six years earlier.
He first pitched his idea of a female harbor colossus to Egypt but the deal fell through.
The literary world he helped found and nurture, and whose landscape he bestrode like the colossus he was—that world is gone.
And Bishop, Colossus, Warpath, Blink, Sunspot, Quiksilver, Stryker and Havoc will all be there too.
Edmund Morgan, 97 Diminutive, almost elfin in appearance, he bestrode his field like a colossus.
He believes, he has an instinct, that here is the heel of the German Colossus, otherwise immune to our arrows.
He beckoned to a superb officer, splendid in his trappings—a blue-eyed colossus of nearly six-feet-six.
Shelby thought that there was a slight chance that the colossus might be able to read his lips even though he could not hear.
The ungainly, lumbering motor-boat, with a hulking colossus balanced at the tiller, dropped behind.

/kuh-los-uhs/US // kəˈlɒs əs //UK // (kəˈlɒsəs) //

庞然大物,巨大的,巨人,巨型

n.名词 noun

1
plural co·los·si [kuh-los-ahy], /kəˈlɒs aɪ/, co·los·sus·es.
- : the legendary bronze statue of Helios at Rhodes.Compare Seven Wonders of the World.
- : any statue of gigantic size.
- : anything colossal, gigantic, or very powerful.

noungiant thing

Synonyms

That phase of colossus creation appears to have ended long ago.
On Monday, S&P Global announced it will merge with IHS Markit in a $44 billion all-stock deal, in the biggest corporate tie-up of 2020, creating a financial data colossus.
When he brought the idea of the colossus to America, the Civil War had ended just six years earlier.
He first pitched his idea of a female harbor colossus to Egypt but the deal fell through.
The literary world he helped found and nurture, and whose landscape he bestrode like the colossus he was—that world is gone.
And Bishop, Colossus, Warpath, Blink, Sunspot, Quiksilver, Stryker and Havoc will all be there too.
Edmund Morgan, 97 Diminutive, almost elfin in appearance, he bestrode his field like a colossus.
He believes, he has an instinct, that here is the heel of the German Colossus, otherwise immune to our arrows.
He beckoned to a superb officer, splendid in his trappings—a blue-eyed colossus of nearly six-feet-six.
Shelby thought that there was a slight chance that the colossus might be able to read his lips even though he could not hear.
The ungainly, lumbering motor-boat, with a hulking colossus balanced at the tiller, dropped behind.