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Ginormous means extremely large — bigger than “big,” and said with a grin. It is a playful, informal word, the kind you use with friends, in ads, or when you want to sound a bit over the top: a ginormous pizza, a ginormous spider, a ginormous mistake. It is not for a careful essay or a formal letter. It started as 1940s military slang and still feels rather than scientific. Though actually, people stretch it: they say it about feelings and problems too, not only about size you can measure.
超巨大的(口語、開玩笑的「非常大」)
組成A blend of gigantic and enormous: gi- from gigantic, -normous from enormous.
同家族的字
- giganticone half of the blend; also means extremely large
- enormousthe other half of the blend; also means extremely large
- ginormouslythe adverb: to an extremely large degree
原始詞典資料1 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。
ginormousadj/dʒaɪˈnɔːməs/
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Very large.
- This is Jazz, a ginormous weird looking planet just showed up in the suburbs of Cybertron.
- Walt Disney World is ginormous. Even after you’re on the property, you have to drive about fifteen minutes to get to different places.
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。