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prodigious
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🇺🇸 /pɹʌdˈɪdʒʌs/
🇬🇧 /pɹəˈdɪd͡ʒəs/
prodigious 主要作形容词，表示“极其惊人”或“规模、数量等大得惊人”；也可作副词，但这一用法较古旧。
💡 记忆钩子
把 prodigious 想成“超出常规、令人惊叹到像奇迹一样”：事情可以因为非凡而令人惊叹，也可以因为巨大、数量惊人而令人震撼；较古旧的含义则是这种异常现象像是在预示什么。
📝 学习建议
- 不要把 prodigious 只理解成“天才”或“神童”；它通常修饰令人惊叹的事物，也常表示规模或数量极大。
- 建议先掌握“非凡、惊人”和“巨大、数量多”这两个现代常用义，表示“以惊人的方式”这一副词义以及“预兆”义较古旧。
📖 中文释义
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core 非凡得令人惊叹📖 表示某人、某事或某种表现异常出色、奇特或惊人，强烈到让人觉得难以置信，像见到了奇迹一样。💡 常用结构是“a prodigious + 名词”或“be prodigious”，用于强调非凡的能力、成就、变化或现象。它是明显带有夸张色彩的较正式形容词，不能简单当作普通的“好”或“有趣”。修饰人时通常强调其能力或成就，而不是直接表示这个人是“天才”。She showed a prodigious talent for solving difficult problems.她展现出了惊人的解决难题的才能。The young musician made prodigious progress in a single year.这位年轻音乐家在一年内取得了惊人的进步。
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core 大得惊人；数量极多📖 表示范围、数量、规模、强度等远远超过通常水平，重点不是单纯“大”，而是“大到令人震撼”。💡 常用结构是“a prodigious amount/number/size”或“prodigious + 名词”，尤其适合修饰工作量、财富、食量、增长幅度等。这个义项在现代英语中很有用，但语气较强，正式或强调性的表达比普通的“large”更自然。注意它既可表示实际尺寸巨大，也可表示抽象数量或程度极高。The project required a prodigious amount of patience and money.这个项目需要极大的耐心和一大笔钱。
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rare 预兆般的；不祥的📖 古旧用法，表示某种异常现象仿佛是预示未来事件的征兆，常带有不祥意味。💡 通常只在古英语、历史文本或文学语境中见到“a prodigious sign/mark”之类的搭配。现代英语中不要用它来表示一般的“惊人”或“巨大”，这些意思应使用现代常用义。archaic obsolete
more prodigious
comparative
most prodigious
superlative
adv
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rare 以惊人的方式📖 古旧副词义，表示某种动作、程度或状态达到惊人的程度，相当于“极其地、惊人地”。💡 常见于较旧的文字中，结构是“prodigious + 形容词”或用在动词附近表示程度。现代英语中通常改用 prodigiously 或其他更自然的程度副词，因此不宜主动仿照这种用法。阅读时可根据上下文把它理解为“非常、惊人地”。archaic
more prodigious
comparative
most prodigious
superlative
📘 英文释义 (WordNet)
共 3 组
so great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe; ; ; ;
同义词集:
colossal
prodigious
stupendous
colossal crumbling ruins of an ancient temple
has a colossal nerve
a prodigious storm
a stupendous field of grass
stupendous demand
近似: big, large
far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree; ; ;
同义词集:
exceeding
exceptional
olympian
prodigious
surpassing
a night of exceeding darkness
an exceptional memory
olympian efforts to save the city from bankruptcy
the young Mozart's prodigious talents
近似: extraordinary
of momentous or ominous significance; - Herman Melville
同义词集:
portentous
prodigious
such a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity
a prodigious vision
近似: important, significant
🌳 词源
源自拉丁语，最初与“预兆、奇异现象、奇迹”有关，后来发展出“非凡、惊人”和“大得惊人”等含义；形容词由名词加表示“充满……的”后缀构成。
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *pér
Proto-Indo-European *-o
Proto-Indo-European *pró
Proto-Indo-European *pro-
Proto-Italic *pro-
Latin prō-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵ-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *h₁ǵyéti
Proto-Italic *agjō
Proto-Italic *ajjō
Latin aiō
Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós
Proto-Italic *-ijos
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -iusnom.
Latin -ium
Latin prōdigium
Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.?
Proto-Italic *-ŏ̄dsos?
Old Latin -ōssus
Latin -ōsus
Latin prōdigiōsusbor.
Middle English prodigious
English prodigious
The adjective is derived from Late Middle English prodigious (“warning of disaster, portentous”), from Latin prōdigiōsus (“strange, unnatural; marvellous, wonderful, prodigious”), from prōdigium (“prophetic sign, omen, portent; prodigy, wonder”) + -ōsus (suffix meaning ‘full of’ forming adjectives from nouns). Prōdigium is derived from prō- (prefix denoting a forward direction, something before or prior, or prominence) + aiō (“to say, speak”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵ- (“to say”)) + -ium (suffix forming abstract nouns). The English word is analysable as prodigy + -ous.
The adverb is derived from the adjective.
Cognates
* Catalan prodigiós
* Middle French prodigieux (“portentous”) (modern French prodigieux)
* Italian prodigioso
* Portuguese prodigioso
* Spanish prodigioso
🔄 变式
more prodigious
compar
most prodigious
superl
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