colossal

• adj.巨大な、異常な、並外れた

colossusから、巨大な像。

colossal

colossal: [18] Colossal comes ultimately from Greek kolossós, a word of unknown origin which was first used by the historian Herodotus as a name for certain gigantic statues in Egypt. It became much better known, of course, when applied to the Colossus of Rhodes, a 36-metrehigh statue of Apollo that stood at the entrance to Rhodes harbour, built around 280 BC. Various adjectives meaning ‘huge’ have since been derived from it: Latin had colossēus and colossicus, and in the 17th century English tried colossean and colossic, but in the 18th century the choice fell on colossal, borrowed from French.

The amphitheatre built in Rome by Vespasian and Titus around 80–75 BC was named Colossēum after its great size.

colossal (adj.)

1712 (colossic in the same sense is recorded from c. 1600), from French colossal, from colosse, from Latin colossus, from Greek kolossos (see colossus).

1. The singer earns a colossal amount of money.

その歌手は今では大金を稼いでいる。

2.Some of the tall buildings in that city are colossal .

その都市の高層ビルは巨大だ。

3.Even by modern standards，the 46，000 ton Titanic was a colossal ship.

現代の基準で見ても、その46，000トンのタイタニック号は巨船である。

4.But just before the competition closed，a lorry arrived at the factory with a truly colossal biscuit which weighed 2400 pounds.

しかし、レースが終わると、トラックが工場に来て、2400ポンドの重さの本物の巨大なビスケットを持ってきた。

5.Plagues aside，many critics see xenotransplanation as a colossal waste of resources.

疫病以外にも、多くの批評家が異種移植を資源の巨大な浪費と見なしている。dd>
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