托福重点词汇解析：monumental
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monumental
【同】intense，eternal
You can use monumental to emphasize the size or extent of someting.
adj.巨大的;极大的
【例】It had been a monumental blunder to give him the assignment.
A monumental building or sculpture is very large and impressive.
adj.高大的;威严的
【例】I take no real interest in monumental scuilpture.
用法介绍
MEANINGS 义项
1.[usually before noun,一般用于名词前] a monumental achievement, piece of work etc is very important and is usually based on many years of work
丰碑式的，伟大的
• a monumental contribution to the field of medicine
对医学领域的重大贡献
• Charles Darwin’s monumental study, ‘The Origin of Species’
查尔斯•达尔文的不朽著作《物种起源》
2.[only before noun,仅用于名词前] extremely large, bad, good, impressive etc
极大[坏，好等]的
• Banks and building societies were yesterday accused of monumental incompetence.
银行和购房互助协会昨天被指责极其不称职。
• a monumental task
艰巨的任务
• There was a monumental traffic jam on the freeway.
高速公路上出现了严重的交通阻塞。
3.[only before noun,仅用于名词前] relating to a monument or built as a monument
纪念碑[塔]的;纪念性的，作为纪念的
• a monumental arch
纪念拱门
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