If her Aunt Eliza had been slow to learn and quick to forget a thing entirely when she had learned it, Ermengarde was strikingly like her. She was the monumental dunce of the school, and it could not be denied.英文原著 · 《A Little Princess》
All the refinements of modern civilization are summed up in the phrase. It is monumental."英文原著 · 《A Prince of Bohemia》
Creeping up the stairs before us, each on the tip of his silken toes, was a serried file of pink barbarians, redder in the face than anywhere else, and armed with crops carried by the wrong end. The monumental person with the short moustache led the advance. The fool stood still upon the top step to let out the loudest and cheeriest view-holloa that ever smote my ears.英文原著 · 《A Thief in the Night》
[1] The publications of The Society for Psychical Research, and FREDERICK MYERS' monumental work on _Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death_, should be specially consulted. I have attempted a brief discussion of modern spiritualism and psychical research in my _Matter, Spirit, and the Cosmos_ (1910), chap.英文原著 · 《Bygone Beliefs》
The publication of "The Origin of Species" placed the study of Botanical Geography on an entirely new basis. It is only necessary to study the monumental "Geographie Botanique raisonnee" of Alphonse De Candolle, published four years earlier (1855), to realise how profound and far- reaching was the change. After a masterly and exhaustive discussion of all available data De Candolle in his final conclusions could only arrive at a deadlock. It is sufficient to quote a few sentences:--英文原著 · 《Darwin and Modern Science》
Plinth stood up and gathered her expensive furs about her monumental form. "I have no wish to criticise," she said; "but unless the Lunch Club can protect its members against the recurrence of such--such unbecoming scenes, I for one--"英文原著 · 《Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton-Part 2》
We are drastically, massively, monumentally different people.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
So go naked into the street and snare me a thundering, monumental fucking case.美剧 · 《Billions》
I know, a case based on the monumental piece of legislation co-signed by Brett.美剧 · 《House of Cards》
Doing something selfless for her other son could make up for your monumental blunder.美剧 · 《Modern Family》