whopper

英 ['wɒpə(r)] 美 ['wɑːpər]

• n. 特大之物；弥天大谎

英英释义

Noun:

1. a gross untruth; a blatant lie

2. something especially big or impressive of its kind

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. The fisherman had caught a whopper.
   那个打鱼的捕到一条特大的鱼。
2. If she said that, she was telling a real whopper.
   要是她那么说的,她就是说了个大瞎话。
3. He has defrauded billions in capital by telling a real whopper.
   他用这个弥天大谎诈骗了上亿元资金。

经典引文

• It's a whopper of around 1,500 pages.

  出自：Sunday Express

• The case..comes down to the reliability of Nonna and Mr Redmond and they have told some whoppers.

  出自：Independent

近反义词

【近义词】

• monster 怪物
• giant 巨人
• whale 鲸
• elephant 大象
• Goliath 巨人
• leviathan 大海兽
• mammoth 巨大的
• lie 躺下
• fib （尤指无伤大雅的）小谎...
• untruth 不真实
• story 故事
• tale 故事
• fabrication 制造
• falsehood 谎言
• whacker 好大的
• walloper 猛击者(巨大的东西)...