colossus
/kəˈlɑ.səs/ 名词 C2中文： 巨像、巨人、庞然大物
- A statue of gigantic size. The name was especially applied to certain famous statues in antiquity, as the Colossus of Nero in Rome and the Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
- Any creature or thing of gigantic size.
- Somebody or something very greatly admired and respected.
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I was very far then from expecting the change you have just informed me of; namely, that four years afterwards, this colossus of power would be overthrown.
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