Giant

(noun.) any creature of exceptional size.

(noun.) an unusually large enterprise; 'Walton built a retail giant'.

(noun.) an imaginary figure of superhuman size and strength; appears in folklore and fairy tales.

(noun.) someone or something that is abnormally large and powerful.

(noun.) a very large person; impressive in size or qualities.

编辑:洛娜

• The giant, steam, demanded and received the obeisance of every art before devoting his inexhaustible strength to their service. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Yet the force of this mighty giant is so completely under control, and may be brought to act so gently, as scarcely to crack a nut placed to receive its fall. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• I tried to reach the porch of a great building near, but the mass of frontage and the giant spire turned black and vanished from my eyes. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Orders were shouted, but it was too late to save the giant propellers, and with a crash we rammed them. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• As on the former occasion he overthrew the cauldron before leaping, sinuous and catlike, into the lower branches of the forest giant. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• In a flash the operator switched on the current and the two men stood as if transfixed, hanging desperately to their weapons that were held aloft as by some giant’s hand. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Tars Tarkas, whose giant stature towered high above the rest of us, could see the farthest. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• Was not the giant wave far higher than the precipice? 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• I had little hope that he could best his giant adversary who had mowed down all before him during the day. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• In the still uncultivated wilds of America, what wonder that among its other giant destroyers, Plague should be numbered! 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• The giant rolls consist of a pair of iron cylinders of massive size and weight, with removable wearing plates having irregular surfaces formed by projecting knobs. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Some of the giant redwood logs must be split in the woods with powder before they can be handled on the saw carriage, and the average yield per acre is in the neighborhood of 150,000 feet. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Jesus had called men and women to a giant undertaking, to the renunciation of self, to the new birth into the kingdom of love. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• You will never care any more about my one-eyed giant, Loo, said Fred at the end. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Tabor stands solitary and alone, a giant sentinel above the Plain of Esdraelon. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The Bell Company fought alone against the Western Union, and it was a struggle of giants. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Raphael, Angelo, Canova--giants like these gave birth to the designs, and their own pupils carved them. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• If old Father Fritz had seen the pair of ye, I think he would have insisted upon the marriage, so as to breed a race of giants. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• There may be giants and dwarfs,' the first peasant said. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• The turf was verdant, the gravelled walks were white; sun-bright nasturtiums clustered beautiful about the roots of the doddered orchard giants. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• I say, there were giants on the earth in those days--giants that strove to scale heaven. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• A race of gods or of giants must have inhabited Baalbec many a century ago. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The Chicago White Sox were winning the American League pennant and the New York Giants were leading the National League. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• Then, suddenly, the jungle giants whipped back, lashing their mighty tops in angry and deafening protest. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• Of these latter, Thomas Alva Edison is one, but in the pages of history he stands conspicuously pre-eminent--a commanding towering figure, even among giants. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Nature there is totally confounded, and nothing mentioned but winged horses, fiery dragons, and monstrous giants. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• If I am a plaything for you giants, be gentle with me. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• The Labour of Men and Beasts now Done by Steam Giants. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.

整理:史黛丝