Englisch-Dänisch Übersetzung für colossus

kolosDet bygger på sand og er en kolos på lerfødder. It makes for a shaky structure, a colossus built on shaky foundations. For mig virker ØMU-samarbejdet som en tung kolos, der har svært ved at følge med i den pulserende økonomi. As far as I am concerned, EMU cooperation looms ponderously large as a colossus which will have difficulty keeping afloat in the present swelling economy. Kolossen - om jeg så må sige, hvis man kan være så uærbødig at beskrive systemet på denne måde - vokser, men lerfødderne bliver svagere og svagere. If I may say so, the colossus, if one can be so irreverent as to describe the system in that way, is growing bigger, but its feet of clay are growing weaker and weaker.

A statue of gigantic size. The name was especially applied to certain famous statues in antiquity, as the Colossus of Nero in Rome and the Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
Somebody or something very greatly admired and respected

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