teraproject refers to a massive project, particularly one that costs a trillion dollars or more.
“超巨型项目”指非常大型的项目,尤其是那种耗资过万亿美元的工程项目。
for example:
moon building is probably a gigaproject or even teraproject.
建设月球也许是个特大项目,甚至是超巨型项目。
除了teraproject,指代金额巨大的相关还有superproject(超级项目)、gigaprojects(特大项目)和megaproject(大型项目)。
speaking pedantically, you could say that thisshould be used for projects that are a million times more expensive than mere megaprojects, since tera- means "trillion" and mega- means "million."
如果要咬文嚼字的话,这个词可以用于形容那些耗资比“巨型项目”(megaprojects)高100万倍的大型项目,因为,tera-是“万亿”的意思,而mega-则指“百万”。
the sharp-eyed reader will have noticed that we skipped right over gigaprojects, meaning large projects with costs that run into the billions (since the pre giga- means "billion"). however, most of us use the word megaproject to refer to any really large project, regardless of cost, so a strict pre-based distinction is hair-splitting.
眼尖的读者会注意到我们没有提到另一个词:gigaproject(特大项目)。由于前缀giga-是“亿”的意思,这个词意指耗资过亿的项目。不过,无论具体金额是多少,我们大部分人都用megaproject来指代那些大型项目,因此要基于前缀来严格区分这些词,显得有些吹毛求疵。
