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词源

源自法語 ，弗朗索瓦·拉伯雷所著《巨人传》中一个胃口很大的巨人的名字。该词系拉伯雷从葡萄牙语和西班牙語 (“喉咙”)一词派生而来。^[1]

发音

• (通用美式) 國際音標^(幫助)：/ɡɑɹˈɡæn.t͡ʃu.ən/

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形容词

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1. 巨大的，庞大的

   近義詞： 、、、、、；亦參見Thesaurus:large

   • 2018 5月 4, Tom English, “Steven Gerrard: A 'seriously clever or recklessly stupid' Rangers appointment”, 出自 BBC Sport‎:

     Some distant observers of the Scottish football scene reckon that all - all! - Gerrard has to do is beat Celtic to become a legend. Even if that was true - and, demonstrably, it is not - then it would be a gargantuan task all on its own.

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   • 2019 9月 14, Elizabeth Paton, “A Fashion/Food Blowout in the Shadow of Brexit”, 出自 New York Times‎:

     Or the twinkling dining rooms: all frilly net curtains, pink walls, kaleidoscope-patterned carpets and tiny tables, crammed with teetering piles of hand-painted ceramic crockery (think plates covered in colorful swirls and cocktail mugs shaped like heaving bosoms or ladies’ faces) that showcase gargantuan portions of Italian fare.

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   • 2022 4月 7, Oliver Milman, “I test-drove the all-electric Hummer. Can it win over America’s EV skeptics?”, 出自 The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     Boxy and unrefined, the Hummer embodied an outlandishly masculine aesthetic that seemed to almost revel in its gargantuan fuel consumption.

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2. (棄用) 巨人卡冈都亚的

参考资料

延伸阅读

• “gargantuan”, Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “gargantuan”, Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, OCLC 800618302
• “gargantuan”, The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, OCLC 867766587
• “gargantuan”, Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present
• “gargantuan” in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary.
• “gargantuan” in TheFreeDictionary.com, 賓夕法尼亞州亨廷頓谷: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.
• OneLook 在线词典 上有关 gargantuan 的释义