titanic
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++ti·tan·ic /taɪˈtænɪk/ adjective BIGvery big, strong, impressive etc 巨大的；力大无比的；重大的 a titanic struggle 大搏斗
Examples from the Corpus
titanic• I could scarcely imagine such a titanic event.• All magic is dangerous and the titanic forces drawn into the realm of Ulthuan are more dangerous than any other.• One critic likened it to a titanic High Mass on Mars.• I learn to see life as a titanic moral struggle between good and evil.• What is trivial to one person may raise titanic questions for some one else.• a titanic struggle between the forces of good and evilthe TitanicTitanic, the a large British passenger ship which was considered impossible to sink, but which hit an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean, and as a result sank, killing more than 1,500 of its passengers. According to one story, the band continued playing while the ship was sinking. People sometimes use the phrase ‘like re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic’ to describe the actions of a person or organization which makes small and useless changes to a situation, when the situation is already hopeless and certain to fail. “泰坦尼克”号〔英国大型客轮，曾被认为不可能沉没，但在大西洋撞上冰山，造成1,500多名乘客遇难；like rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic 用于形容人们在绝望情形下所作的于事无补的努力〕ti·tan·ic adjectiveTitanic, theChineseSyllable
strong, etc Corpus big, impressive very
titanic
ti‧tan‧ic /taɪˈtænɪk/
adjective
very big, strong, impressive etc:
a titanic struggle
ti‧tan‧ic /taɪˈtænɪk/
adjectivevery big, strong, impressive etc:
Titanic
Titanic, the
a large British passenger ship which was considered impossible to sink, but which hit an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean, and as a result sank, killing more than 1,500 of its passengers. According to one story, the band continued playing while the ship was sinking. People sometimes use the phrase ‘like re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic’ to describe the actions of a person or organization which makes small and useless changes to a situation, when the situation is already hopeless and certain to fail.
Titanic, the
a large British passenger ship which was considered impossible to sink, but which hit an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean, and as a result sank, killing more than 1,500 of its passengers. According to one story, the band continued playing while the ship was sinking. People sometimes use the phrase ‘like re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic’ to describe the actions of a person or organization which makes small and useless changes to a situation, when the situation is already hopeless and certain to fail.