【colossus】 - A-level备考词汇

colossus

UK:  [kə'lɒsəs]

US:  [kə'lɑsəs]

复数：colossi  

n.

1.巨像;巨人,巨物

2.阿波罗神青铜巨像〔约36米〕

3.庞然大物;巨人

4.巨大的势力

1 . For thousands of years, sand buried the colossus up to its shoulders, creating a vast disembodied head atop the eastern edge of the Sahara.
数千年来，黄沙没过了斯芬克斯的肩膀，使得狮身人面像如同一颗巨大的头颅，安放在撒哈拉沙漠的东端。

2 . Needless to say, Axis aggression transformed the United States into a military-industrial colossus.
毋庸赘述，轴心国的入侵将美国转化为一个军工业巨头。

3 . The Colossus would become lifted into the air and become entirely an air unit for the duration of the Anti-Gravity ability.
巨像在被使用反重力技能的过程中会被升到空中，成为纯空中单位。

4 . The taciturn Texan, known as "Big Ed" , seems to want to repeat his success by rehabilitating another fallen colossus of American industry.
这位被称为“大亨艾德”的沉默寡言的德克萨斯人，似乎有意通过扶起美国工业中倒下的另一个巨人而再下一城。

5 . Yet there is a question of whether America in the long run can maintain its edge as the biotech colossus.
然而，就长期来看，美国能否维持其作为生物技术大国的优势地位呢？