It seems a gargantuan task to teach a pupil to memorize every word he needs to know, much as if the child were being asked to shovel a huge pile of sand, with the shovel shut away

教一个小学生去死背他们需要掌握的每一个单词，看来真是一项浩繁的任务，可更要一个孩子铲掉一大堆沙子，却不给他铲子。

a gargantuan appetite.

惊人的食欲。

Mr Samaras is caught between the rescuers’ demands for more spending cuts and boiling anger on the streets. Police fired tear gas at hooded protesters hurling petrol bombs on September 26th, the day of a general strike, while tens of thousands of demonstrators outside the Greek parliament shouted “EU, IMF Out!”.|| European officials say much now depends on whether, after some massaging of Greece’s figures, the IMF can be cajoled into declaring its gargantuan debt to be “sustainable”.|| The fund, for its part, is privately urging euro-zone countries to write off some of their loans to Greece, but that is unlikely until after Germany’s election next year.

1:Samaras 现在被夹在援助者要求更大程度地减少开支和希腊民众对此要求沸腾的怒火之间。||2:在9月26日这天的大罢工中，警察向蒙面投掷汽油炸弹的抗议者发射了催泪弹, 而成千上万的示威者在希腊议会大楼外高喊“欧盟、国际货币基金组织滚出去！”。||3:欧洲官员表示,现在大部分取决于，国际货币基金组织经过希腊的‘按摩’是否相信并宣布其庞大的债务是“可持续的”。||4:该基金组织,就其本身而言,在私下敦促欧元区国家放弃他们对希腊的债权,但是这到明年德国大选之前都是不可能的。

As well as its gargantuan TVs it showed off new tablets, washing machines and more—and a platform called Smart Home, on which all manner of appliances could be controlled from inside or outside the home.

包括会上展示的巨型电视、新型平板、洗衣机以及更多的设备，并展示了一个名为智能家庭的平台，通过这一平台所有的家用设备都能在室内或是室外操控。

It is more than a decade since the internet made book-buying cheaper and more convenient. If technology now helps cut gargantuan legal bills in America and elsewhere, it will be better late than never.

互联网使得买书更便宜，方便已经有10多年了。对于法律，互联网如果能在这时候，在美国还有其他地方，帮忙削减大笔的法律开支的话，就会是亡羊补牢了。

These prospects go some way to explaining a valuation higher than the market value of 87% of firms in the S&P 500 and more than a third higher than that of General Motors, which had a gargantuan $152 billion in sales last year.

尽管去年通用汽车的销售额达到惊人的1520亿美元，优步的市值依然比通用汽车高出三分之一。优步的市值击败了标准普尔指数500中87%的公司，究其原因，正是上述所提到的优步的（发展）前景。

If technology now helps cut gargantuan legal bills in America and elsewhere, it will be better late than never.

如果技术的进步能够在美国以及其它地区削减高昂的法律价格，那还为时未晚。

But after a couple of years of effort, it became apparent the project was a gargantuan effort and would never be finished.

但花了几年的努力之后，程序员们发现他们这个项目如此庞大，以至于根本不可能完成。

But with its 5-inch display, the gargantuan Streak is awfully big for a phone.

但是一个有5英寸屏幕的手机，它的巨大笨拙无疑看起来糟透了。

But thanks to its gargantuan energy consumption, that’s no silver bullet either.

但由于其巨大的能源消耗，也不算是什么妙招。

That energy began deep inside the gargantuan station, and was eventually channeled into an array of eight tributary laser cannons.

该能量始于这座巨型太空站的内部深处，最后流入八门分支激光炮。

And the currency debate is just one facet of the gargantuan effort China faces to resolve the structural issues bedeviling its economy.

关于人民币升值的讨论只是中国着手解决诸多困扰经济发展的结构性问题的一个方面。

The drought adds to concerns over the effect that a gargantuan water-diversion project will have on the central provinces of China.

旱灾加剧了人们对庞大的调水工程对华中各省影响的担忧。

Convertibility of the currency is a gargantuan barrier.

货币的可兑换性就是一个巨大的障碍。

How can they dare to withdraw facilities and berate borrowers when no one has been sacked for such gargantuan incompetence?

既然他们对贷款的顾客这么刻薄，动辄收回贷款，怎么没有一个高管因为这么大的无能而被解雇？

The Carnaval Bar sells drinks so gargantuan that the hookah-sized glasses attach to your neck with a leash.

嘉年华酒吧出售的饮料是如此巨大以至于只能用水烟袋大小的杯子装，用皮带系在你脖子上。

The presidency has become a gargantuan enterprise in which media-star leaders are surrounded by a permanent campaign apparatus.

美国总统这一职位已经成为了一个庞大的企业单位，固定不变的竞选机制困扰了其中被媒体所追捧的领导人。

The Allies assembled a gargantuan naval armada, from battleships and destroyers to landing craft and coasters.

盟军组成了一支庞大的海军舰队，从战列舰、驱逐舰到登陆艇以及运输艇等。

Agricultural Bank itself is notable for both its gargantuan size (320m customers) and its giant past loan losses.

农业银行本身已其庞大的规模（3.2亿客户）和过去巨额的贷款亏损著称。

If you undertake this gargantuan political act while others are not, you bear all the political costs and reap none of the benefits.

如果你启动了这一规模庞大的政治行动，而其他国家没有，你就得承担全部政治成本，并且不会收获其带来的任何好处。

Emailed image of a gargantuan dog named Hercules, purportedly the Guinness Record holder for World’s Biggest Dog. And it said

上图是通过电子邮件发送的名为大力士的巨犬的图片，据说它是世界上最大狗的吉尼斯纪录保持者。

He has logged more than 1, 400 animals, from the miniature (one-ounce song sparrows) to the gargantuan (a 1, 500-pound black Angus bull).

他已经记录下了超过1400只动物，从小型的（30几克的麻雀）到大型的（一只679.5公斤重的黑色安格斯公牛）。

Rather than blowing their reserves on gargantuan schemes, Arab and Asian governments are investing it, relatively professionally.

为了避免他们的外汇存底无限制膨胀，阿拉伯及亚洲政府将这些资本相对专业的进行投资。

We don’t see him very often as he is pretty much housebound, but I’m not surprised the firemen couldn’t lift him, he is gargantuan .

我们并不能时常见到他，因为他通常都宅在家里。消防员抬不动他，我并不吃惊，他实在是太庞大了。

Like China, Vietnam is open, but unlike its gargantuan neighbour it has consistently run trade deficits.

像中国一样，越南也开放了经济，但与其庞大的邻国不同，越南的贸易一直处于逆差。

l gargantuan : stresses greatness of capacity, as for food or pleasure

尤其强调容量大，如就食物或快乐而言：

Interestingly, sometimes these gargantuan efforts aren’t even tracked properly, as it would make the project look bad.

有趣的是，有时这些庞大的努力甚至不会被正确的看待，它可能使工程看起来很糟。

It’s a new paradigm for computing which affects everyone, and with it come gargantuan business opportunities.

云计算将成为影响人类运算方式的新范例，也将带来巨大的商业机遇。

Using the web from your phone while abroad can mean returning home to gargantuan phone bills. But even that’s beginning to change.

在国外使用手机登陆网站意味着你回到家会收到一张让你咋舌的账单，不过这个问题也开始得到解决了。

During transit to the gargantuan battle station, Tarkin’s command shuttle was ambushed by a Rebel elite force sent to assassinate him.

在去这个巨型战斗太空站的途中，塔金的指挥穿梭机遭到一支起义军精锐部队的伏击，他们被派来暗杀塔金。

gargantuan mastitis

n.乳房巨大性乳腺炎

gargantuan oil tanker

n.巨大的油船