- 1巨大的、龐大的（多用在「力量、努力、鬥爭」這類抽象的大，不是單純體積大）
Titanic means enormous — so big that it is hard to take in. It is an adjective for scale, and it goes most naturally with things you cannot measure with a ruler: a titanic struggle, a titanic effort, a titanic battle, titanic changes. That is the useful thing to notice. English speakers rarely say "a titanic building"; they say a titanic effort to save the building. The word reaches for size of force, of will, of consequence. It is formal and dramatic, the language of history books, sports reporting and speeches, and using it about something small sounds like a joke — "a titanic effort to open the jar" is funny on purpose. There is one more thing every should know. The Titanic was the great ship that sank in 1912 on its first voyage, and that ship is so famous that the word now carries a shadow of it. So when a writer says a plan was titanic, some readers will feel a hint of "huge, and heading for disaster". Good writers use that on purpose. The word came from the Titans, the giant gods of Greek stories, and it kept their scale.
組成Titan (the giant Greek gods) + -ic (an ending that makes an adjective, meaning "of, like") = "like a Titan". The same -ic is in heroic and historic.
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Titanicadj詞源 1/taɪˈtænɪk/
- 1
Of or relating to the Titans, a race of giant gods in Greek mythology.
- 2
Having great size, or great force, power, or strength.
- Rome—Rome imperial, bows her to the storm, / In the same dust and blackness, and we pass / The skeleton of her Titanic form, / Wrecks of another world, whose ashes still are warm.
- And still in the distracted distance we beheld the tumults of the outer concentric circles, and saw successive pods of whales, eight or ten in each, swiftly going round and round, like multiplied spans of horses in a ring; and so closely shoulder to shoulder, that a Titanic circus-rider might easily have overarched the middle ones, and so have gone round on their backs.
- 3
Of a conflict or contest: involving equally powerful participants.
Titanicname詞源 2/taɪˈtænɪk/
- 1
The RMS Titanic, an ocean liner, thought by the public to be unsinkable, that sank on its maiden voyage on 15 April 1912 after colliding with an iceberg.
- The Titanic story inspired a movie considered as one of the best of all time.
Titanicnoun詞源 2/taɪˈtænɪk/
- 1
A venture that fails spectacularly, especially one perceived as overconfident.
- Surely , one doesn't want another Titanic, with everyone sailing along in the serene belief that all will be well
- "[…]We don't want another Titanic on our hands. Come on, folks, there's plenty of lifeboats for everybody. Make your way down."
titanicadj詞源 1/taɪˈtænɪk/
- 1
Alternative letter-case form of Titanic.
- 2
Alternative letter-case form of Titanic.
- 3
Alternative letter-case form of Titanic.
titanicadj詞源 2/taɪˈtænɪk/
- 1
chemistryinorganic-chemistrynatural-sciencesOf or relating to titanium, especially tetravalent titanium.
- 2
chemistrygeographygeologyOf a mineral, especially iron ore: containing titanium, or from which titanium may be extracted.
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