prodigious

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prodigious — 形容詞

  • prodigiouspositive
  • more prodigiouscomparative
  • most prodigioussuperlative

1. If something is prodigious, it is surprisingly large, powerful, or skilful — muc

1.形容詞C1
釋義

驚人的

指能力、數量或規模大到令人驚訝

If something is prodigious, it is surprisingly large, powerful, or skilful — much more so than what people normally see or expect.

例句

Zola, a young pianist, showed a prodigious talent that amazed the audience.

Zola 這位年輕鋼琴家展現了驚人的天賦，讓全場觀眾讚嘆不已。

prodigious + talent (noun collocation for ability)

The Watanabe family saved a prodigious amount of money by growing their own vegetables.

渡邊家靠著自己種菜，省下了驚人的金額。

prodigious amount of [noun]

常見搭配
  • prodigious talent
  • prodigious amount
  • prodigious effort
  • prodigious memory
  • prodigious collection
  • prodigious appetite
  • prodigious feat
同義詞
  • enormous

    focuses purely on physical size; prodigious also covers skill and figurative greatness

  • remarkable

    less intense; remarkable means 'worth noticing' while prodigious means 'shockingly great'

  • phenomenal

    very similar but more common in informal speech; prodigious is more literary and formal

  • colossal

    emphasises huge size specifically, unlike prodigious which also applies to talent or memory

反義詞
  • tiny

    small in size

  • modest

    unremarkable or average in amount or scale

文法句型

prodigious + noun (talent, amount, memory, effort)

be + prodigious

用法筆記

Commonly used before nouns such as talent, memory, effort, amount, or collection to emphasise how surprisingly great they are. It is more formal than words like 'huge' or 'amazing' and appears most often in written English and formal speeches.

常見錯誤

My younger sister is a prodigious.
My younger sister is a prodigy.
Prodigious is an adjective; the noun form is prodigy (a highly talented person).
The cake my aunt baked was prodigious.' (if meaning 'delicious')
My aunt baked a prodigious amount of cake for the party.
Prodigious describes size, amount, or skill, not flavour or quality.

2. Something that is prodigious seems to be a sign or warning of something importan

2.形容詞C2
釋義

不祥的

預示重要或不好事件的徵兆

Something that is prodigious seems to be a sign or warning of something important or bad that is going to happen later.

例句

The deep red clouds seemed to Niran like a prodigious sign of trouble ahead.

那深紅的雲層在 Niran 看來就像是不祥的預兆，預示著即將到來的麻煩。

prodigious + sign + of (collocation for warning)

The storyteller spoke of a prodigious silence that fell over the village before the flood.

那位說書人提到，洪水來臨前，村莊籠罩在一片不祥的寂靜之中。

常見搭配
  • prodigious sign
  • prodigious silence
  • prodigious omen
  • prodigious warning
同義詞
  • ominous

    more common in everyday use; prodigious in this sense is older and more literary

  • portentous

    nearly identical in meaning; portentous is slightly more frequent in modern writing

  • foreboding

    describes a feeling rather than a thing; 'a foreboding silence' vs. 'a prodigious silence'

文法句型

be + prodigious (of something)

prodigious + sign / silence / atmosphere

用法筆記

Rarer and mainly literary; often describes natural phenomena such as clouds, silences, sounds, or atmospheric conditions that feel like warnings of future events. In modern everyday English this sense is much less common than sense 1.

常見錯誤

The prodigious clouds meant good weather tomorrow.
The prodigious clouds seemed to warn of a coming storm.
Sense 2 implies an ominous or significant warning, never a neutral or positive prediction.

同根字

  • prodigy
    名詞B2
  • prodigiously
    副詞C1
  • prodigiousness
    名詞C2

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常用片語

  • prodigious in size
  • prodigious in scope
  • of prodigious proportions

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