hulking

英 [ˈhʌlkɪŋ]

美 [ˈhʌlkɪŋ]

adj.  很大的; 很沉重的; 大得吓人的

TEM8

BNC.34255 / COCA.17154

牛津词典

adj.

• 很大的；很沉重的；大得吓人的
  very large or heavy, often in a way that causes you to feel nervous or afraid
  1. a hulking figure crouching in the darkness
     黑暗中蹲伏着的一个庞大身影
  2. I don't want that hulking great computer in my office.
     我不要把那台又笨又大的计算机放在我的办公室。

柯林斯词典

• ADJ （尤指令人恐惧的人或物）庞大而笨重的，庞然大物般的
  You usehulkingto describe a person or object that is extremely large, heavy, or slow-moving, especially when they seem threatening in some way.
  1. When I woke up there was a hulking figure staring down at me...
     我醒来时，有个巨形身影正低头盯着我看。
  2. He came upon the hulking redbrick hospital.
     他偶然发现了这座红砖砌成的森然高耸的医院。

英英释义

adj

• of great size and bulk
  1. a hulking figure of a man
  2. three hulking battleships
  Synonym:hulky

双语例句

• They have shared the same hulking blast furnace, dismantled and shipped piece by piece from Germany's old industrial heartland to Hebei Province, China's new Ruhr Valley.
  它们使用同样简陋的熔炉，这些设备被拆开来再分成小块从德国的老工业中心转移到河北省，中国的新鲁尔山谷。
• We can't move that hulking great desk on our own.
  靠我们自己没法搬动那张又大又笨重的办公桌。
• Henry Thorne once programmed hulking robots to weld the frames of Buick regals, Pontiac Grand prixs, and Chevy cutlass Supremes on a general motors ( GM) assembly line.
  亨利•索恩曾负责编程控制笨重的机器人，以焊接通用汽车（GeneralMotors）装配线上的别克（Buick）君威（Regals），庞蒂克（Pontiac）GrandPrixs和雪佛兰（Chevy）CutlassSupremes的框架。
• "I hate that word hulking," objected Tom crossly," even in kidding."
  “我恨笨拙这个词，”汤姆气呼呼地抗议道，“即使开玩笑也不行。”
• Perched on stage beside the hulking figure of Arnold Schwarzenegger last weekend, Alibaba boss, Jack Ma, looked slighter than ever.
  与壮硕的阿诺德·施瓦辛格同台亮相，阿里巴巴的老板马云显得格外袖珍。
• The massive cloud that converges in the firmament above is a hulking harbinger of China's impending change.
  汇聚在天空中的大朵白云成为中国即将发生的变化的拙劣先兆。
• Eating wood might seem odd, but many low-calorie breads and other baked goods now include powdered cellulose, which acts as a hulking agent to help hold the foods together.
  吃木头听来似乎有些奇怪，但许多低热量（卡路里）的面包和其他一些烘焙食品如今都添加一些纤维素粉末，用来作为聚合的中介物，以助食品整体的凝固。
• In the middle of a scrubby business park on the outskirts of Dublin, a hulking grey building has recently sprung up.
  在都柏林郊外一片灌木丛生的商业园区中央，一座庞大的灰色建筑最近拔地而起。
• The former speaker, J.Dennis Hastert, now just a Republican member of Congress from Illinois, stood hunched and hulking by the back rail of the chamber.
  前任众院议长丹尼斯•哈斯特德弓着背，笨重的倚在议院（注6）的栏杆上。
• It was a mistake to put such a hulking creditor second only to the International Monetary Fund in the recovery queue.
  让这个如此庞大的债权人在获得补偿的队伍中排在仅次于国际货币基金组织（IMF）的位置，是一个错误。