英语释义

1. a legendary humanlike being of great stature and strength

2. a living being of great size

3. a person of extraordinary powers

4. something unusually large or powerful

5. having extremely large size, proportion, or power

6. a legendary creature usually thought of as being an extremely large and powerful person

7. a person or thing that is very large, powerful, or successful

8. very large much larger or more powerful than normal

9. an imaginary person of great size and strength

10. a person or thing that is very large, successful, or powerful
He grew up to be a giant of a man.

11. much larger than ordinary huge

片语

Giants War巨人之战

giant star[天] 巨星

giant panda大熊猫；大猫熊

financial giants金融巨头

SF Giants旧金山巨人队

Lotte Giants乐天巨人队

giant molecule[物化] 巨分子

giant salamander鲵；[脊椎] 娃娃鱼

giant slalom大回转（高山滑雪项目）

giant cell tumor[肿瘤] 骨巨细胞瘤

giant planet[天] 巨行星

giant cell[无脊椎] 巨细胞；巨胞

giant squid巨型乌贼；大王乌贼

Giants causeway巨人之路

Forest Giants森林巨子

facing giants面对巨人

red giant[天] 红巨星

giant buddha巨佛；天坛大佛

Project Giants巨石迷阵

sleeping giant沉睡的巨人（潜力还未充分发挥的大公司或组织）

英汉例句

• you can learn crisis management from corporate giants because not every aspect of public relations is going to be pleasant.

  你可以从公司巨头哪里学到危机管理，因为并非所有的公关都会有愉快的结果。

• in 「when giants learn to dance」 (1989), the last of what is in effect a trilogy, kanter likened the world of global competition to a 「corporate olympics」.

  1989年，坎特出版了三部曲中的最后一部——「当巨人学会跳舞」，在这部书中，坎特将全球企业的竞争比作「企业界的奥运」。

• in asia, too, premium beers have yet to catch on, presenting another potential opportunity for brewing’s giants as they compete across the world.

  在亚洲也是如此，顶级优质啤酒还未普及流行，却潜藏着另一个在全球竞争中成为酿酒业的巨头的机会。

• yet america’s food giants have thrown their weight behind it.

  然而美国的食品巨头已经公开支持这一产品。

• the mining giants do not deny that they have profited handsomely from high commodity prices but do dispute that figure.

  矿业巨头不否认从高额的消费品价格中获利丰厚，但是他们不同意政府的数据。

• a global concert with leading rock stars is to be broadcast simultaneously on the internet from stages at giants stadium in new jersey, wembley stadium in london and the geneva opera house.

  一场一流摇滚明星参加的全球音乐会，将从新泽西巨人体育场、伦敦温布莱体育场和日内瓦歌剧院的舞台，在因特网上同时播放。

• lizette took her place in line and (taking some of the cotton out of one ear) listened to the giants ahead of her, but they were speaking words too ugly for lizette to say or for me to write here.

  莉莎特站在队里，把耳朵里的棉花拿出来一点，听她前面的巨人说了什么。但他们说的词太骯脏了，莉莎特根本说不出口，我也没法写出来。

• but industry giants like intel and researchers around the world have used her subsequent achievements to do just that.

  不过业界的巨头，像英特尔，以及全球各地的研究人员，就已经利用她的后续成果做到了这一点。

• the giant, who claims, incidentally, to have built stonehenge, warms to rooster and gives him a drum; if he ever needs help he should bang it and the giants will come.

  他偶然提到的巨人曾建造了史前巨石柱，这个巨人他，还给了他一个鼓，一旦「雄鸡」需要帮忙，只要敲打这个鼓，巨人就会到来。

• these are the giants in the industry, but they are far from the most creative.

  它们都是这个领域的巨人，但是它们缺乏最有创意的想法。

• be mutantly flexible: the biggest advantage you have when competing with giants is just giving customers exactly what they want.

  灵活变通：你与产业巨头竞争时，你的最大优势就是为客户提供他们真正想要的东西。

• in my first book, 「war at the top of the world, 」 i predicted the two asian giants would go to war over their himalayan border, burma and sea control.

  在我的第一本书「世界之颠的战争」里，我预测，这两个亚洲巨头将因双方在喜马拉雅边界、缅甸和海洋控制方面的问题爆发战争。

• it’s regrettable that i could not work with tambourines and elephants, giants doing cartwheels, or statues wearing high heels.

  非常遗憾，我没法和非洲野鸽和大象、翻筋斗的巨人或穿着高跟鞋的雕像一起工作。

• these giants of broadcasting have actually shaped not only television but our perception of it as well.

  这些广播业的巨头实际上不仅塑造了电视，而且也塑造了我们对电视的理解。

• finally she said to the horse, "i do not think those giants are evil.

  最后，她对马儿说道：「我并不觉得那些巨人很邪恶。

• moreover, even if they grow no more, the mortgage giants pose a clear systemic threat.

  因此即使他们不变得更多，抵押贷款巨人造成了一个显然的系统威胁。

• myth and fantasy populate the world with “othermen」—the elves, goblins, dwarfs and giants that live in the wild wood, in the cave or on the high mountain peak.

  神话和幻想的广为流传是由于「另类人种」——精灵，小妖精，矮人和巨人，他们住在原始森林里，山洞里，或是高山顶峰。

• although all this may dent their revenues, america’s internet giants could also benefit from the legislation if it helps them in their dealings with the european union.

  尽管这一切都可能削弱他们的收入，美国的互联网巨头也可以受益于该项法案，这有助于他们和欧盟打交道。

• even in 1820, as the industrial revolution in britain was gathering pace, the two asian giants still accounted for half the world’s gdp.

  即使到了1820年，当工业革命在英国已经大步加速时，这两个亚洲巨人仍然占有了世界gdp的一半。

相似词

behemoth巨大的；高大的

blockbuster轰动；巨型炸弹；一鸣惊人者

colossus巨像；巨人；巨大的东西

dinosaur恐龙；过时、落伍的人或事物

dreadnought厚呢大衣；无畏战舰

elephant象；大号图画纸

Goliath哥利亚（圣经中被大卫杀死的巨人）；巨人

jumbo庞然大物；巨型喷气式飞机；体大而笨拙的人或物

leviathan海中怪兽；庞然大物；巨轮

mammoth巨大的，庞大的；艰巨的

mastodon巨大的；庞大的

monster巨大的，庞大的

titan巨人；提坦；太阳神

whale（非正式）殴打；捕鲸；使惨败

whopper特大的东西；谎言，弥天大谎

相反词

diminutive爱称；指小词；身材极小的人

dwarf侏儒，矮子；（传说或神话里的）小矮人；矮星

midget(Midget) （美、加、澳）密德杰特（人名）

mitead （非正式）一点儿，稍许

peewee矮小的

runt(Runt)人名；(捷)伦特

shrimp虾；小虾；矮小的人