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Colossal is a strong word for extremely large. You reach for it when huge is not enough and you want someone to feel the size: a colossal statue, a colossal building, a colossal amount of money.
Colossal這個字 a strong word for extremely large是形容「極其巨大」的強烈字眼。when huge is not enough當huge不夠力、and you want someone to feel the size你想讓人感受到那種規模時，You reach for it你就會用這個字，例如a colossal statue巨大的雕像、a colossal building巨大的建築、a colossal amount of money巨額的金錢。
Though actually, a lot of the time nobody is measuring metres at all. People say a colossal mistake, a colossal failure, a colossal waste — they mean the thing is extremely serious, or extremely big in effect, not that you could put a ruler against it.
Though actually不過其實，a lot of the time很多時候 nobody is measuring metres at all根本沒有人在量公尺。People say人們會說 a colossal mistake重大的錯誤、a colossal failure慘重的失敗、a colossal waste巨大的浪費——they mean他們的意思是 the thing is extremely serious這件事非常嚴重、or extremely big in effect或是影響極大，not that you could put a ruler against it而不是說你可以拿尺去量它。
The word still carries a little of the old giant-statue feeling: so big it is almost famous.
The word這個字 still carries仍然帶著 a little of the old giant-statue feeling一點舊時「巨大雕像」的味道：so big大到 it is almost famous幾乎要出名的程度。
It is more dramatic than big or huge, a little more than enormous, and you will hear it in news, stories, and adult talk more than in the playground.
It它 than big or huge比big或huge is more dramatic更誇張，than enormous比enormous a little more bookish又更書面一點，and you will hear it而你會聽到它 in news, stories, and adult talk在新聞、故事和大人的談話裡，more than in the playground比在遊樂場裡還多。
組成From French colossal, built on Latin colossus, from Ancient Greek κολοσσός (kolossós), a giant statue.
同家族的字
- colossusthe giant statue — and later a giant person or thing — that this adjective comes from
- colossallythe adverb formed from colossal
- Colosseumthe building in Rome, named from the same Greek word for a giant statue
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
colossaladj/kəˈlɒsəl/
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Extremely large or on a great scale.
- A single puppy can make a colossal mess.
- Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.[…]Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster. Clever financial ploys are what have made billionaires of the industry’s veterans. “Operational improvement” in a portfolio company has often meant little more than promising colossal bonuses to sitting chief executives if they meet ambitious growth targets. That model is still prevalent today.
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Amazingly spectacular; extraordinary; epic.
- "It's just the very biggest thing that I ever heard of!" said I, though it was my journalistic rather than my scientific enthusiasm that was roused. "It is colossal. You are a Columbus of science who has discovered a lost world."
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。