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very important and having a great influence, especially as the result of years of work synonym historic重要的;意義深遠的;不朽的 Gibbon’s monumental work ‘The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire’ 吉本的不朽著作《羅馬帝國衰亡史》
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very large, good, bad, stupid, etc. synonym major非常大(或好、壞、蠢等)的 Extra Examples - [only before noun]
appearing in or serving as a monument 作爲紀念碑的;紀念碑上的 a monumental inscription/tomb 碑文;陵墓