[每日] gargantuan (a) 龐大的
Word of the Day (Sunday January 11, 2009)
gargantuan \gahr-GAN-choo-uhn\, adjective:
Pronunciation: http://0rz.tw/935j4
enormous; gigantic; huge
On a marshy peninsula 50 miles from this Red Sea port, King
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia is staking $12.5 billion on a gargantuan
bid to catch up with the West in science and technology.
-- Thanassis Cambanis, New York Times, 2007-10-26
But keeping them there, with the night shifts and the erratic
parental schedules, was a gargantuan effort.
-- Allison Sherry, Denver Post, 2006-12-18
by 1571, from Gargantua, large-mouthed giant in Rabelais' novels,
supposedly from Spanish/Portuguese garganta "gullet, throat,"
which is from the same imitative root as gargle.
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