英语词汇“Brobdingnagian”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典-新都网

Brobdingnagian

/ˌbrɒbdɪŋˈnaɡɪən

adjective

Huge; gigantic: a beam engine of Brobdingnagian proportions...

Huge great Brobdingnagian wooden doors open to the King's Cross building site, giving light and air of fair to middling quality.
Everything is of Brobdingnagian proportions.
Yet half a boot is still man-tall, which suggests the Brobdingnagian proportions of the vanished monument.

noun

A giant.He never quite stayed still, peeking out of the cattails to eye this Brobdingnagian and see whether it meant any harm....

A limber Brobdingnagian hulked about Paris last week.
The Brobdingnagians could, if they wished, dominate through their superior size, but they do not.

Early 18th century: from Brobdingnag, the name given by Swift (in Gulliver's Travels) to a land where everything is of huge size, + -ian.

单词	Brobdingnagian
释义	Brobdingnagian /ˌbrɒbdɪŋˈnaɡɪən / adjective Huge; gigantic: a beam engine of Brobdingnagian proportions... Huge great Brobdingnagian wooden doors open to the King's Cross building site, giving light and air of fair to middling quality. Everything is of Brobdingnagian proportions. Yet half a boot is still man-tall, which suggests the Brobdingnagian proportions of the vanished monument. noun A giant.He never quite stayed still, peeking out of the cattails to eye this Brobdingnagian and see whether it meant any harm.... A limber Brobdingnagian hulked about Paris last week. The Brobdingnagians could, if they wished, dominate through their superior size, but they do not. Origin Early 18th century: from Brobdingnag, the name given by Swift (in Gulliver's Travels) to a land where everything is of huge size, + -ian.
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