Prodigious

(a.) Of the nature of a prodigy; marvelous; wonderful; portentous.

(a.) Extraordinary in bulk, extent, quantity, or degree; very great; vast; huge; immense; as, a prodigious mountain; a prodigious creature; a prodigious blunder.

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• They would often spring, and bound, and leap, with prodigious agility. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• His courage was prodigious. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• This course, persisted in, will soon make a prodigious difference in the quantity of wool. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• A somewhat difficult feat, achieved with great dexterity, and with a prodigious splash. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• I asked, whether he or the crew had seen any prodigious birds in the air, about the time he first discovered me. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• Everybody wondered at the prodigious size and beauty of the Diamond, as a matter of course. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• I have advised a prodigious number of clients, and have dealt with some exceedingly awkward difficulties, in my time. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• He was very rich and very respectable, and he begot a prodigious large family--all in his favour, so far. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• It seemed they made a prodigious noise. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The great feature of the Mosque of Omar is the prodigious rock in the centre of its rotunda. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• He will be a prodigious inconvenience to me, still persisted Mr. Home. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• We hurried across the ravine and up a winding road, and stood on the old Acropolis, with the prodigious walls of the citadel towering above our heads. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Five hundred pounds would be a prodigious increase to their fortunes! 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• The latter was a feeble child, and it was only by prodigious quantities of calomel that Lady Southdown was able to keep him in life at all. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Still, that mountain, prodigious as it was, was nothing to the Pyramid of Cheops. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• But the greatest curiosity, upon which the fate of the island depends, is a loadstone of a prodigious size, in shape resembling a weaver's shuttle. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• Norland is a prodigious beautiful place, is not it? 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• I felt my box raised very high in the air, and then borne forward with prodigious speed. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• Nature at another point had outstripped him, yet he had broadened his own sum of knowledge to a prodigious extent. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• But if I had more room, I should take a prodigious delight in improving and planting. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• The wealth of his grandfather was reported in the school to be prodigious. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• His memory was prodigious, conversation laconic, and movements rapid. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Thus advised, Mrs. Pocket took it the other way, and got its head upon the table; which was announced to all present by a prodigious concussion. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The Portuguese pennies, or reis (pronounced rays), are prodigious. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Thus Slackbridge; gnashing and perspiring after a prodigious sort. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• Sincerely as I loathed the man, the prodigious strength of his character, even in its most trivial aspects, impressed me in spite of myself. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• By the help of inferences and innuendoes, treasons multiplied in a prodigious manner. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• This is a number too prodigious for the mind of man to grasp. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Thus it appears that this vein of coal has suffered a prodigious settlement. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.

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