giant

英[ˈdʒaɪənt]
美[ˈdʒaɪənt]

基本释义

n.
巨人; 巨兽; 大公司; 伟人
adj.
巨大的; 伟大的

词性变化

实用例句

He's a giant of a man.

他是个巨人。

牛津词典

the multinational oil giants

跨国大石油公司

牛津词典

literary giants

大文豪

牛津词典

a giant crab

巨蟹

牛津词典

a giant-size box of tissues

特大一盒纸巾

牛津词典

a giant step towards achieving independence

朝着独立迈出的巨大的一步

牛津词典

...Italy's giant car maker, Fiat.

意大利汽车生产巨头菲亚特公司

...a giant oak table.

巨大的橡木桌

...Japanese electronics giant Sony.

日本电子业巨头索尼公司

...one of Germany's industrial giants, Daimler-Benz.

德国工业巨头之一,戴姆勒—奔驰公司

...a Nordic saga of giants.

北欧的巨人传奇

He has enormous charisma. He is a giant of a man...

他有超凡的个人魅力,是个伟人。

The biggest man in the patrol, a giant of a man, lifted Mattie on to his shoulders.

巡逻队中块头最大的那个彪形大汉将玛蒂举起来放到自己的肩上。

...the giant of opera, Luciano Pavarotti...

歌剧界巨擘卢恰诺·帕瓦罗蒂

He was without question one of the giants of Japanese literature.

毋庸置疑,他是日本的文学巨匠之一。

Traditional and the newly established key projects absorbed a total of more than 60 million graduates.

传统和新设立的重点项目共吸纳60多万名毕业生.

期刊摘选

Shakespeare is a giant among writers.

莎士比亚是作家中的巨擘.

《简明英汉词典》

The lofty pagoda stands like a giant at the top of the mountain.

巍巍宝塔屹立在山巅.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

He doesn't want his firm to be swallowed up by a transnational giant.

他不想自己的公司被一家大型的跨国公司吞并.

《简明英汉词典》

Once upon a time there was a giant with two heads.

从前有个两头巨人.

《简明英汉词典》

The giant packet gives you more for less money!

特大的包装使你用便宜的价钱买到超值的分量!

《简明英汉词典》

The giant jets that increasingly dominate the world's airways.

越来越称雄于世界航线的巨型喷气机.

《简明英汉词典》

It is not often that one so young has such a giant intellect.

年纪这样轻、智力又如此高的人可不多.

《简明英汉词典》

The best airships were the giant Graf Zeppelin and the luxurious Hindenburg of the 1930 s.

最好的飞船是20世纪30年代特大的齐柏林号和豪华的兴登堡号.

《简明英汉词典》

Newton was an intellectual giant.

牛顿是一个智力巨人.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

The Wanglang Preserve in western Sichuan is the haunt of the giant panda.

川西的王朗自然保护区是大熊猫出没的地方.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

He's a giant of a man.

他是个巨人。

《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》

真题例句

The overthrown giants of Wall Street took the biggest knock, with average pay cuts of 38% and median bonuses of zero.

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

Within the wider business world, a man who liked to see himself as a hippy (嬉皮士), permanently in revolt against big companies, ended up being hailed by many of those corporate giants as one of the greatest chief executives of his time.

出自-2012年12月阅读原文

Many corporate giants saw Steve Jobs as

出自-2012年12月阅读原文

He is the CEO of a giant company.

出自-2013年6月听力原文

Lisa, our little company, and it is little compared to the giants in the city.

出自-2013年6月听力原文

If we don't, we will be swallowed up by one of the giants

出自-2013年6月听力原文

It is well positioned to compete with the giants.

出自-2013年6月听力原文

Just this week, an investigation found that media and telecom giant Comcast is the most hated provider.

2017年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section A

The article cites the global giant Procter and Gamble as an example, saying a real innovative company should develop an innovation culture and use it as a primary tool for success.

2016年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section A

The retail giant said the poor financial performance this year has pushed it to begin implementing $400 million in cost-cutting measures.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

The recent discovery of the giant Zohr gas field off the Egyptian coast will eventually have impact on pricing in the Mediterranean region and Europe, and there is significant development potential in many other places, notably Argentina.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

A prime example Schweitzer and his colleagues cite is the 2004 collapse of energy-trading giant Enron, where managers used financial incentives to motivate salesmen to meet specific revenue goals.

出自-2012年6月阅读原文

Just a few decades ago, Asia's two giants were stagnating(停滞不前) under faulty economic ideologies.

出自-2012年6月阅读原文

Several opponents have recently emerged, ranging from rival tech giants such as Microsoft and Amazon to small bodies representing authors and publishers across the world.

出自-2011年12月阅读原文

At the same time, this sea-water also kills off the greedy giant apple snail, an introduced pest that feeds on young rice plants.

2018年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

For now, the giant apple snail's presence in Europe is limited to the Ebro Delta.

2018年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

I began working on my latest book, The Buried giant, in 2004.

2017年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section A

It may not have been ladylike to depict a giant spider devouring a hummingbird, but when Merian did it at the turn of the 18th century, surprisingly, nobody objected.

2018年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

Merian was correct about the giant bird-eating spiders, ants building bridges with their bodies and other details.

2018年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

The Ebro Delta, in Spain, famous as a battleground during the Spanish civil War, is now the setting for a different contest, one that is pitting rice farmers against two enemies: the rice-eating giant apple snail, and rising sea levels.

2018年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

And the appearance of new-born giants suggests that newcomers can make waves, too.

2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Data can strengthen giants' controlling position.

2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 选项

Data giants' technology is very expensive.

2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 选项

However, just before the annual giant vegetable competitions, an enormous rabbit begins terrorising the town.

2015年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

Now similar concerns ares being raised by the giants that deal in data, the oil of the digital age.

2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Restarting antitrust for the information age will not be easy but if govemments don't wants a data oconomy by a few giants, they must act soon.

2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Such situations have led to calls for the tech giants to be broken up.

2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

The giants' success has benefited consumers.

2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Protests have erupted over construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope, a giant observatory that promises to revolutionize humanity’s view of the cosmos.

出自-2017年考研阅读原文

The use of privacy law to curb the tech giants in this instance feels slightly maladapted.

出自-2018年考研阅读原文

The potential of this work applied to healthcare is very great, but it could also lead to further concentration of power in the tech giants.

出自-2018年考研阅读原文

And a survey conducted for BuzzFeed News found 44 percent of Facebook users rarely or never trust news from the media giant.

出自-2018年考研阅读原文

And a survey conducted for Buzz Feed News found 44 percent of Facebook users rarely or never trust news from the media giant.

2018年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

He quotes a giant of classical economies, Alfred Marshall, in describing this financial impatience as acting like "children who pick the plums out of their pudding to eat them at once" rather than putting them aside to be eaten last.

2019年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Protests have erupted over construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope, a giant observatory that promises to revolutionize humanity's view of the cosmos.

2017年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

That is how we have put a giant target sign on the backs of American workers, Hagel says.

2014年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

The Dutch giant Elsevier, which claims to publish 25% of the scientific papers produced in the world, made profits of more than £900m last year, while UK universities alone spent more than £210m in 2016 to enable researchers to access their own publicly f

2020年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

The potential of this work applied to healthcare is very great, but it could also lead to further concentration of power in the tech giant.

2018年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

英英释义

Noun
  • 1. any creature of exceptional size

  • 2. a person of exceptional importance and reputation

  • 3. an unusually large enterprise;

    "Walton built a retail giant"

  • 4. a very large person; impressive in size or qualities

  • 5. someone or something that is abnormally large and powerful

  • 6. an imaginary figure of superhuman size and strength; appears in folklore and fair tales

  • 7. a very bright star of large diameter and low density (relative to the Sun)

Adjective
  • 1. of great mass; huge and bulky;

    "a jumbo jet"

    "jumbo shrimp"

同义词辨析

huge, enormous, immense, giant, gigantic, colossal, vast, massive, tremendous

这些形容词均有"巨大的,庞大的"之意。

  • huge: 含义广,强调体积或容积的庞大。也可用于引申意义。
  • enormous: 指体积、数量或程度远远超过一般标准。
  • immense: 正式用词,侧重空间的广阔,也指面积或分量的巨大。
  • giant: 非正式用词,多为褒义。指如巨人般的庞大体积。
  • gigantic: 指面积或体积的巨大,但多用于引申意义。
  • colossal: 侧重尺寸、规模和体积的无比巨大。
  • vast: 多指空间、面积、范围的巨大,不涉及重量。
  • massive: 指大的体积、数量和重量,侧重庞大而笨重。
  • tremendous: 指某物很大,大得惊人;也可用作引申意义。

反义词

adj.巨人般的;巨大的

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