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Monumental describes something extremely large, important, or impressive — often a huge achievement, a huge effort, or even a huge mistake ("a monumental error"). It comes from the idea of something so big it deserves a monument, a large structure built to remember an important person or event. It can also be used more literally, to describe something actually related to a monument, but the "extremely great" meaning is far more common in everyday speech.
巨大的;重大的;紀念碑的(較少用)
組成monument (a large structure honoring someone or something important) + -al (turns it into an adjective).
同家族的字
- monumentmonumental is built directly from this word
原始詞典資料4 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。
monumentaladj/ˌmɒnjʊˈmɛntəl/
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In the manner of a monument.
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Large, grand and imposing.
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Taking a great amount of time and effort to complete.
- Creating a complete map of the human connectome would therefore be a monumental milestone but not the end of the journey to understanding how our brains work.
- a monumental task
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archaeologyhistoryhuman-sciencesRelating to monuments.
- Monumental construction.
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。