gargantuan 復習

　南カロライナで行われたゴルフのトーナメント中に、ワニがコースを横切り、試合が一時中断されました。
Giant alligator interrupts South Carolina golf tournament

A gargantuan alligator interrupted a golf tournament in South Carolina Monday, nonchalantly walking across the course as players watched carefully nearby.

The gator was photographed at The River Course on Kiawah Island, as it snuck up on players participating in the Barrier Islands Free Medical Clinic's 10th Annual Celebrity Golf Invitational.

At first, the men did not notice as the alligator approached them, said photographer Carrie Moores, marketing and communications specialist for the Barrier Island Free Medical Clinic. Once Moores alerted them to the gator's presence, "they hopped in their carts to zoom off," she told ABC News.

In a second photo, the players are watching the gator from the safety of their golf carts.

A representative for The Kiawah Island Club told ABC News that gators often walk onto the courses before retreating back to the ponds.

The invitational raised money for uninsured patients in the area to receive free patient care at the clinic, based on nearby Johns Island, according to ABC Charleston affiliate WCIV.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/giant-alligator-interrupts-south-carolina-golf-tournament/story?id=46426351

　取り上げる単語は"gargantuan"です。文脈的に、ワニの種類を表す語だと予想しましたが、少し違った意味があります。

　『ジーニアス英和辞典』第４版（大修館）で調べてみると、「巨大な、ものすごい量の」という意味があることが分かりました。これは、フランスの作家Rabelaisの風刺小説Gargantuaの主人公,、巨大で大食漢のGargantuaから来ているそうです。

　LDOCEでは、"extremely large"と定義されています。今回、横切ったワニは、とても大きかったことが分かります。

　幸い、怪我人や被害者など出ずに済んだとのことです。(Akim)

gargantuan #2 - 田邉祐司ゼミ 常時英心：言葉の森からgargantuan - 田邉祐司ゼミ 常時英心：言葉の森から