參見:Gargantuan

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源自法語 Gargantua弗朗索瓦·拉伯雷所著《巨人傳》中一個胃口很大的巨人的名字。該詞系拉伯雷從葡萄牙語和西班牙語 garganta (喉嚨)一詞派生而來。[1]

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gargantuan (比較級 more gargantuan最高級 most gargantuan)

  1. 巨大的,龐大
    近義詞:colossalenormousgianthugehumongousimmense;亦參見Thesaurus:large
    • 2018年5月4日, Tom English, 「Steven Gerrard: A 'seriously clever or recklessly stupid' Rangers appointment」, 出自 BBC Sport[1]:
      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年9月14日, Elizabeth Paton, 「A Fashion/Food Blowout in the Shadow of Brexit」, 出自 New York Times[2]:
      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年4月7日, Oliver Milman, 「I test-drove the all-electric Hummer. Can it win over America’s EV skeptics?」, 出自 The Guardian[3], →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) 巨人卡岡都亞的

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  1. Gourd, Pumpkin. See Budge Ref, p 803A; (from 'Rev 12'--Revue Egyptologique publiee sous la direction de MM Brugsch, F Chabas, and Eug. Revillout (vol I-XIV))

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