colossus GRE专八

a colossus of bureaucracy.

大官僚机器

the Russian Empire was the colossus of European politics.

俄罗斯帝国曾是欧洲政治中人。

a colossus ventilated by the dawn breeze.

被黎明时微风吹得洁净像。

He saw himself first as a straddler—roughly on the scale of the Colossus of Rhodes, for he was not short of self-esteem.

他认为自己首先是个和事佬——大体上在罗德岛太范围之内，因为他并不缺乏自尊。