co·los·sal
adjective/kəˈlɒsl/
/kəˈlɑːsl/
- extremely large
极其巨大的；庞大的 - a colossal statue
巨大的雕像 - The singer earns a colossal amount of money.
那歌手现在可赚大钱了。 - The variety of wines available is colossal.
可供选择的葡萄酒种类繁多。 - They have spent a colossal amount of money on construction.
他们已在建设工作上投入了巨资。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryColossal is used with these nouns:- blunder
- cheek
- mistake
- …
Word Originearly 18th cent.: from French, from colosse, from Latin colossus from Greek kolossos (applied by the Greek historian Herodotus to the statues of Egyptian temples). - a colossal statue