English-Spanish translations for colossus

colosoDebemos tener cuidado de no construir una Torre de Babel, prestando más atención al propio coloso que a la calidad. We must take care not to build a Tower of Babel, paying more attention to the colossus itself than to quality. En consecuencia, procede que el fallecimiento de dicho coloso deportivo conste en este Parlamento internacional. Accordingly, it is fitting that the passing of such a sporting colossus should be noted in this international parliament. Será considerada un coloso cansado y debilitado, un continente con un balbuceo fanfarrón, frágil y viejo, nada más que un museo histórico. It will be seen as a tired and enfeebled colossus, a continent filled with boastful babble, fragile and old, nothing more than a historical museum.

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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