词汇精选：colossal的用法和辨析

一、详细释义：

adj.

巨大的；异常的，非常的

例句：

It seems as if human agency could affect this colossal power.

真好像人力能够左右这庞大无比的力量似的。

例句：

It was a colossal passion in embryo. It never matured.

它是一种还处在胚胎中的伟大感情，从来没有成熟过。

二、词义辨析：

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。

三、参考例句：

This is indeed a colossal success.

这确实是个巨大的成功。

It was a colossal passion in embryo. It never matured.

它是一种还处在胚胎中的伟大感情，从来没有成熟过。

It requires government spending on a colossal scale.

这要求政府付出巨额开支。

It seems as if human agency could affect this colossal power.

真好像人力能够左右这庞大无比的力量似的。

It seems as if human agency could affect this colossal power.

真好像人力能够左右这庞大无比的力量似的。

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

即使按照现代的标准看，那46,000吨的泰坦斯尼克号也是一艘巨轮。

No other city in India bears such colossal inconveniences with such phlegmatic grace.

在印度没有哪个城市承受着如此巨大的不便和冷淡的宽容。

It took 1,200 hours and half a million bricks to finalize the creation, which features basketball-sized ornaments and a colossal star.

这棵大树花了1200个小时和50万块积木完成，装点上篮球大小的装饰品和巨大的星星。

Is there a chance, however small, that in making itself known to aliens, humanity could be about to make a colossal mistake ' he said, according to The Times.

据《泰晤士报》报到，他说：“有没有这样的可能，哪怕可能性很小，人类让未知的外星生命得知自己的存在而犯下极大的错误？”

But it also handles serious tourist traffic: 37 million who pass through to take in the impeccably mixed architectural styles throughout the colossal building: from Classical to Beaux-Arts to Baroque.

而且，它还承载着繁重的旅游交通任务：有3700万名旅客观光见识了这座混合了古典、学院和巴洛克风格的非凡建筑。