喜樂美語
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    /ɪˈnɔːrməs/ · /ɪˈnɔːməs/

    Very big in size or amount.

    巨大 / 龐大

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

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核心畫面

Picture something so big it has burst past the normal scale — off the ruler, out of the ordinary range you would ever expect.

可以想成：一個東西大到衝出了「正常」的刻度——超出你平常量得到的範圍，大得離譜、大得不尋常。

From the word’s history

From Latin enormis 'out of rule, irregular, extraordinary' — ex- 'out of' + norma 'rule, norm, carpenter's square'. Enormous is literally 'outside the norm': so far past normal size that it breaks the measure.

來自拉丁文 enormis「脫出常規、不合規矩、異常」；ex- 是「脫離」，norma 是「規範、標準、木匠的角尺」。enormous 字面上就是「超出常規」——大到跳出了正常的尺度。

Online Etymology Dictionary (etymonline.com/word/enormous)

原始詞典資料3 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。

enormousadj/ɪˈnɔː.məs/

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    obsoleteDeviating from the norm; unusual, extraordinary.

    • all shall be rather enforced than hindered, except they be dismembered, or grievously deformed, infirm, or visited with some enormous hereditary disease is body or mind […].
  • 2

    obsoleteExceedingly wicked; atrocious or outrageous.

    • how apt wee are to receive all impressions, and chiefly the most wicked and enormous.
    • Men would prove wolves and vipers; tigers and dragons mixt in one and the same person to each other. O bless God for this great gift of Princes and Judges to rule the wicked and enormous world and to sway the scepter of righteousness […]
  • 3

    Extremely large; greatly exceeding the common size, extent, etc.

    • The enormous Jupiter is the largest planet in the Solar System.
    • He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site.

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。