a monumental task

Gibbon's monumental work ‘The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire ’

吉本的不朽著作《罗马帝国衰亡史》

It seems like an act of monumental folly.

这似乎是一种非常愚蠢的行为。

I take no real interest in monumental sculpture.

我对高大的雕塑没什么兴趣。

Banks and building societies were yesterday accused of monumental incompetence.

银行和购房互助协会昨天被指责极其不称职。

a monumental mason (= a person who makes monuments )

纪念碑石工

a monumental arch

纪念拱门

a monumental contribution to the field of medicine

对医学领域的重大贡献

...his monumental work on Chinese astronomy.

他关于中国天文学的不朽巨著

It had been a monumental blunder to give him the assignment.

当时把这项任务给他是大错特错了。

The Taylor shooting claimed innocent lives and caused monumental suffering to the victims'families and friends.

泰勒开枪杀害的是无辜的生命,给受害者的家人和朋友造成了莫大的痛苦.

Charles Darwin's monumental study, 'The Origin of Species'

查尔斯•达尔文的不朽著作《物种起源》

Paisal's palace was on a monumental scale.

费萨尔的宫殿十分宏伟壮观.

a book of monumental significance

一本意义非凡的书

...a series of monumental disappointments.

一连串的巨大失望

There was a monumental traffic jam on the freeway.

高速公路上出现了严重的交通阻塞。

a monumental inscription/tomb

碑文；陵墓

Passing bells and sculpted angels, cold and monumental.

消逝的钟声与天使雕像, 冰冷且不灭的.

The urgency of the situation makes it necessary to reiterate the monumental problems of population growth.

情况的紧迫性使我们有必要重申人口增长的重大问题.

This will be a monumental struggle of good versus evil. But good will prevail.

这将是一场不朽的正义同邪恶的战斗. 但正义终会战胜邪恶.

It was positively monumental.

这非常雄伟.