喜樂美語

核心畫面

A , larger-than-life figure from a fairy tale — a person so enormous he dwarfs everyone around him. From that one picture of size, 'giant' stretches in two directions: to describe anything hugely bigger than its kind, and to label any thing or person that ' large' the way that storybook giant does.

可以想成童話故事裡那個高得嚇人的大個子——一個體型大到讓周圍所有人都顯得渺小的人物。整個字的畫面就從這個「壓倒性的大…更多收起可以想成童話故事裡那個高得嚇人的大個子——一個體型大到讓周圍所有人都顯得渺小的人物。整個字的畫面就從這個「壓倒性的大」長出來：往外延伸去形容任何比同類大得多的東西，也用來指任何像那個故事巨人一樣「龐大、突出」的人或物。

Three branches

故事裡的巨人

這就是核心畫面本身：傳說中那個又高又壯、常常不太善良的大個子。

mythical giant · noun · B1

A very tall, strong, make-believe person in stories, often unkind.

巨人

大得超乎尋常

把巨人那種「比周圍一切都大上一截」的感覺抽出來，當形容詞用，或用來指現實中真的特別大的個體。

giant (very large) · adjective · B1

Much bigger than other things of the same kind.

巨大的

領域裡的巨頭

把「體型上的巨大」轉成「份量上的巨大」：在某個領域裡龐大、有影響力到讓對手相形見絀，就像巨人讓旁人顯得渺小。

major company · noun · B1

A very large and successful company.

巨頭、大企業

原始詞典資料14 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。

Giantnoun

  • 1

    ball-gamesbaseballgamesA player for the San Francisco Giants.

  • 2

    American-footballball-gamesfootballA player for the New York Giants.

  • 3

    human-sciencesmysticismmythologyA Gigas, a member of the Gigantes, a race of giants who defied the gods.

giantnoun/ˈd͡ʒaɪ.ənt/

  • 1

    A mythical human or humanoid of very great size.

    • The Dwarf then swelled and grew higher and higher till he became a monstrous Giant, and vanished in the air, while the old people were praying to God and thanking him for their deliverance.
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    fantasyhuman-sciencesmysticismSpecifically:

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    fantasyhuman-sciencesmysticismSpecifically:

    • The giants also had been outlawed along with Satan because they had fought against god.
  • 4

    A very tall and large person.

    • "It's barbarous, Norsus." "It's Rome," said the giant flatly.
  • 5

    A tall species of a particular animal or plant.

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    astronomynatural-sciencesA star that is considerably more luminous than a main sequence star of the same temperature.

  • 7

    computingengineeringmathematicsAn Ethernet packet that exceeds the medium's maximum packet size of 1,518 bytes.

  • 8

    A very large organization.

    • The retail giant is set to acquire two more struggling high-street chains.
    • Healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson says it will continue to sell its talc-based Johnson's Baby Powder in the UK and the rest of the world, despite stopping sales in the US and Canada.
另外 2 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    A person of extraordinary strength or powers, bodily or intellectual.

    • But then I had the flintlock by me for protection. ¶ There were giants in the days when that gun was made; for surely no modern mortal could have held that mass of metal steady to his shoulder. The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window[…].
    • she's not the intellectual giant
  • 10

    gymnasticshobbieslifestyleA maneuver involving a full rotation around an axis while fully extended.

giantadj/ˈd͡ʒaɪ.ənt/

  • 1

    Very large.

    • The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters …. But the priciest items in the market aren't the armadillo steaks or even the bluefin tuna. That would be the frozen chicatanas – giant winged ants – at around $500 a kilo.

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。