英汉词典

giant 基本解释

• n. 巨人；伟人；[动] 巨大的动物
• adj. 巨大的；巨人般的

giant 词态变化

giant 中文词源

来自希腊语gigas, 巨大，词源同gigabyte.

giant 英文词源

giant (n.)

c. 1300, "fabulous man-like creature of enormous size," from Old French geant, earlier jaiant "giant, ogre" (12c.), from Vulgar Latin *gagantem (nominative gagas), from Latin gigas "a giant," from Greek Gigas (usually in plural, Gigantes), one of a race of divine but savage and monstrous beings (personifying destructive natural forces), sons of Gaia and Uranus, eventually destroyed by the gods. The word is of unknown origin, probably from a pre-Greek language. Derivation from gegenes "earth-born" is considered untenable.

In þat tyme wer here non hauntes Of no men bot of geauntes. [Wace's Chronicle, c. 1330]

It replaced Old English ent, eoten, also gigant (from Latin). The Greek word was used in Septuagint to refer to men of great size and strength, hence the expanded use in modern languages; in English of very tall and unusually large persons from 1550s; of persons who have any quality in extraordinary degree from 1530s. As a class of stars, from 1912. As an adjective from early 15c. Giant-killer is from 1726.

giant 英文释义

1. any creature of exceptional size

2. a person of exceptional importance and reputation

3. an unusually large enterprise;

"Walton built a retail giant"

4. a very large person; impressive in size or qualities

5. someone or something that is abnormally large and powerful

6. an imaginary figure of superhuman size and strength; appears in folklore and fair tales

7. a very bright star of large diameter and low density (relative to the Sun)

giant 同义词解析

huge, enormous, immense, giant, gigantic, colossal, vast, massive, tremendous

这些形容词均有"巨大的，庞大的"之意。

huge： 含义广，强调体积或容积的庞大。也可用于引申意义。

enormous： 指体积、数量或程度远远超过一般标准。

immense： 正式用词，侧重空间的广阔，也指面积或分量的巨大。

giant： 非正式用词，多为褒义。指如巨人般的庞大体积。

gigantic： 指面积或体积的巨大，但多用于引申意义。

colossal： 侧重尺寸、规模和体积的无比巨大。

vast： 多指空间、面积、范围的巨大，不涉及重量。

massive： 指大的体积、数量和重量，侧重庞大而笨重。

tremendous： 指某物很大，大得惊人；也可用作引申意义。

giant 双语例句

1. A giant wildcat is being hunted after 58 lambs were butchered.

一只大野猫在捕杀了58只羊羔后遭到猎捕。

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2. The result has been a giant leap in productivity.

其结果是生产力的大幅提高。

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3. Fewer than a thousand giant pandas still live in the wild.

只有不到1,000只大熊猫仍然在野外生活。

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4. A whole valley of boulders tossed higgledy-piggledy as though by some giant.

整个山谷里巨石翻滚，就像有巨人在狂扔乱掷。

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5. Overhead cranes were lifting giant sheets of steel.

高架起重机正吊起一块块巨大的钢板。

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giant 实用场景例句

He's a giant of a man.

他是个巨人。

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the multinational oil giants

跨国大石油公司

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literary giants

大文豪

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a giant crab

巨蟹

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a giant-size box of tissues

特大一盒纸巾

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a giant step towards achieving independence

朝着独立迈出的巨大的一步

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...Italy's giant car maker, Fiat.

意大利汽车生产巨头菲亚特公司

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...a giant oak table.

巨大的橡木桌

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...Japanese electronics giant Sony.

日本电子业巨头索尼公司

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...one of Germany's industrial giants, Daimler-Benz.

德国工业巨头之一，戴姆勒—奔驰公司

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...a Nordic saga of giants.

北欧的巨人传奇

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He has enormous charisma. He is a giant of a man...

他有超凡的个人魅力，是个伟人。

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The biggest man in the patrol, a giant of a man, lifted Mattie on to his shoulders.

巡逻队中块头最大的那个彪形大汉将玛蒂举起来放到自己的肩上。

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...the giant of opera, Luciano Pavarotti...

歌剧界巨擘卢恰诺·帕瓦罗蒂

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He was without question one of the giants of Japanese literature.

毋庸置疑，他是日本的文学巨匠之一。

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Traditional and the newly established key projects absorbed a total of more than 60 million graduates.

传统和新设立的重点项目共吸纳60多万名毕业生.

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Shakespeare is a giant among writers.

莎士比亚是作家中的巨擘.

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The lofty pagoda stands like a giant at the top of the mountain.

巍巍宝塔屹立在山巅.

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He doesn't want his firm to be swallowed up by a transnational giant.

他不想自己的公司被一家大型的跨国公司吞并.

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Once upon a time there was a giant with two heads.

从前有个两头巨人.

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The giant packet gives you more for less money!

特大的包装使你用便宜的价钱买到超值的分量!

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The giant jets that increasingly dominate the world's airways.

越来越称雄于世界航线的巨型喷气机.

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It is not often that one so young has such a giant intellect.

年纪这样轻、智力又如此高的人可不多.

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The best airships were the giant Graf Zeppelin and the luxurious Hindenburg of the 1930 s.

最好的飞船是20世纪30年代特大的齐柏林号和豪华的兴登堡号.

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Newton was an intellectual giant.

牛顿是一个智力巨人.

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The Wanglang Preserve in western Sichuan is the haunt of the giant panda.

川西的王朗自然保护区是大熊猫出没的地方.

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He's a giant of a man.

他是个巨人。

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