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colossus
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colossi
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colossuses
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Comprehensive English-Chinese Dictionary
- colossus
[kə'lɑsəs]
[kə'lɔsəs]
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noun
巨像;尤指[Colossus]阿波罗巨像(约在公元前280年建于罗得岛,为古代世界七大奇迹之一)
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2.
noun
巨人,要人;庞然大物
Collins English-English Dictionary
- colossus
[kə'lɒsəs]
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n
something very large, esp a statue
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n
[Etymology]
C14: from Latin, from Greek kolossos
Examples
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独步文坛
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be the unrivalled literary colossus of the age
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