英:[ˌelɪˈfæntaɪn]
美:[ˌelɪˈfæntin]
英:[ˌelɪˈfæntaɪn]
美:[ˌelɪˈfæntin]
el·e·phan·tine
e l faen tin [or] e l faen taIn [or] e l faen tihn
adjective
having enormous size or strength : massive
clumsy, ponderous
elephantine verse
of or relating to an elephant
geographical name
island in the Nile River opposite Aswân in southern Egypt population 1814
1620年代,“巨大的”,源自拉丁语 elephantinus “关于大象的”,来自 elephantus(参见 elephant)。 “关于大象的”意思来自1670年代。更早的形容词是 elephantic(1590年代)。
The first known use of elephantine was in 1610
elephantnoun
any of a family of huge thickset nearly hairless mammals that have the snout lengthened into a trunk and two incisors in the upper jaw developed into long outward-curving pointed ivory tusks and that include two living forms:
one with large ears that occurs in tropical Africa
one with relatively small ears that occurs in forests of southeastern Asia
elephantineadjective
very big : huge, massive
lacking grace
of or relating to an elephant
1 Indeed, the jet’s elephantine proportions were both a gift and a challenge to the travel industry.
2 It’s the puzzle as pastiche, at once an absurdist riff and an endearing, elephantine folly.
3 In performance, the trombone dominated, drawing attention to Mr. Taylor’s remarkable versatility, particularly the braying, elephantine sound he produced in one of three vamps.
4 And in “the ultimate expression of sheer, elephantine joy,” the animals then let loose with bladder and bowels.
5 Tweaks to its air springs and adaptive dampers lessen this elephantine SUV's body motions with little sacrifice to its ride quality.
6 “He is mostly evasive. His pauses are elephantine. Broadway musicals could be mounted during his pauses.”
7 The elephantine grand piano can easily bully its smaller partners or timidly overcompensate.
8 Johns’s entire body of work, to go by this elephantine show of more than 500 works, is akin to a trove of Nabokovian love letters — obscure and thwarted, but also punning, mordant, full of life.
9 The utopian task Moss said she alone could do would be to galvanize an elephantine organization into employing its massive resources toward the rejuvenation of the very art of performance.
10 His mind is sharp, his memory elephantine, and he bristles with energy and vigour.
梅莱斯头脑敏锐,记忆超群,精力充沛,活力四射。
11 He could play Oscar Wilde if you put him in a long wig – he's so kind of slobby and elephantine.
12 “Pachyderm Shout” opened in a lumbering rut, with bowed bass and bass clarinet, before the action shifted to the trombones, in a testifying chorus of elephantine harrumphs.
13 Then the red thing was past and the elephantine progress diminished toward the sea.
14 Technology of 1 Baidu oneself appears serious problem, the elephantine lotus elder sister with Baidu fat now spider , still be in all the time self-reliant beauty.
百度自身技术出现严重问题,百度蜘蛛现在胖的象芙蓉姐姐,还一直在自恃美丽。
15 An elephantine sculpture in front of the Seagram Building on Park Avenue at 53rd Street has much going for it: impressive scale, contrast with the normal environment and popularly appealing imagery.
16 Ignatius picked up one of his elephantine desert boots and flung it at the pirouetting figure.
17 ...elephantine clumsiness...
因块头大而造成的笨拙
18 Their daughter is quite plump but their son is positive ly elephantine.
他们的女儿很胖;可是儿子呢,简直像大象。
19 Also in the “Art and the Divine” gallery, an eighth-century Indian sandstone sculpture of a dancing Ganesha is accompanied by a video showing a contemporary dancer evoking the elephantine god’s movements.
20 Their daughter is quite plump but their son is positively elephantine.
他们的女儿很胖;可是儿子呢,简直像大象。
2 过大的
4 重大的
great high material heavy grand pregnant memorable fatal far-reaching thumping earthshaking of consequence
7 重大
great high material heavy grand pregnant memorable fatal far-reaching thumping earthshaking stress pregnancy significance magnitude of consequence
8 笨拙的
lubberly cack-handed heavy awkward clumsy left-handed wretched ill unwieldy overgrown hulking bumbling ungainly uncouth gauche unskillful bonehead ham-fisted tactless artless fumbling gawky footless klutzy impolitic ham-handed blundering inexpert maladroit inapt unapt hamfisted twofisted flat-footed all thumbs have a heavy hand wooden agricultural rustic bearish inept heavy-handed ponderous balky lumpen ungraceful cussed clodhopping cloddish hobbledehoy shambly lead-footed vegetable hairy clunky untoward uncoordinated unsubtle lumpish bull-headed heavy-footed unhandy bungling skill-less cag-handed slow dense chuckle lousy bovine unskilled zany left-footed clumping knock-kneed clownish corn-fed two-fisted undiplomatic muddleheaded gawkish hipshot unpolitic cubbish
9 笨重
cumbersome clumsy beefy unwieldy hulking ponderous lumpish puddingy ponderousness unwieldiness ponderosity heavy bulky coarse cumbrous dull
11 巨大的
cyclopic mastodontic decuman great big huge giant monster vast fabulous enormous tremendous mighty profound gigantic monumental mammoth monstrous mountainous galactic colossal bouncing Titanic prodigious gargantuan stupendous thumping leviathan slashing humungous Cyclopean Brobdingnagian walloping swingeing pyramidical superduper dinosauric a whale of an a whale of a biblical immense mega whopping almighty astronomical seismic jumbo raging oceanic boundless immeasurable humongous whacking massy maha mickle massive extensive severe epic generous terrific staggering lavish copious monolithic titanic inconsiderable macro- bulky ginormous extraordinary heroic frantic untold megalo- mega- spectacular overwhelming desperate tidy savage resounding yawning large strong wide fantastic infinite handsome conspicuous gigantean macro sensational swinging behemoth rattling homeric cyclopean brobdingnagian cyclopian immane great uncle Great Week elemental unwieldy strapping boisterous wally thundering unfathomed vasty gigantesque hugeous main megal- no end of
14 过大
15 大象
16 巨大
cyclopic mastodontic decuman great big huge giant monster vast fabulous enormous tremendous mighty profound gigantic monumental mammoth monstrous mountainous galactic colossal bouncing Titanic prodigious gargantuan stupendous thumping leviathan slashing humungous Cyclopean Brobdingnagian walloping swingeing pyramidical superduper dinosauric size magnitude greatness enormity bigness bulkiness hugeness giantism a whale of an a whale of a massive extensive severe epic generous terrific immense mega whopping staggering lavish astronomical seismic copious monolithic titanic inconsiderable whacking macro- amplitude immensity bulky jumbo humongous ginormous extraordinary heroic almighty frantic untold boundless immeasurable megalo- mega- gigantism spectacular overwhelming desperate tidy savage resounding yawning vastness large strong wide fantastic infinite handsome conspicuous bulk gigantean macro sensational swinging behemoth rattling homeric cyclopean brobdingnagian cyclopian immane massiness largeness great uncle big brute big coat Great Week elemental unwieldy strapping boisterous wally thundering unfathomed vasty gigantesque hugeous main megal- -megaly no end of
17 庞大的
huge enormous gigantic mammoth colossal monolithic gargantuan big flash monster vast bulky humongous princely stonking socking great
19 硕大的
20 累赘的
21 笨拙
lubberly cack-handed heavy awkward clumsy left-handed wretched ill unwieldy overgrown hulking bumbling ungainly uncouth gauche unskillful bonehead ham-fisted tactless artless fumbling gawky footless klutzy impolitic ham-handed blundering inexpert maladroit inapt unapt hamfisted twofisted sternforemost dumpishly awkwardly clumsily woodenly artlessly boorishly blunderingly insipience dumpishness awkwardness clumsiness flat-footed angularity boorishness gaucherie artlessness gawkiness inaptitude goonery with a heavy hand all thumbs have a heavy hand be all fingers and thumbs be all thumbs vegetable wooden hairy clunky inept untoward uncoordinated ponderous unsubtle lumpish bull-headed heavy-footed ungraceful unhandy cloddish deliberation fall over oneself bungling skill-less cag-handed slow dense rustic chuckle lousy bovine unskilled zany left-footed clumping knock-kneed clownish corn-fed two-fisted undiplomatic muddleheaded gawkish hipshot unpolitic cubbish fatly muff dullness maladdress for sour apples
22 粗笨