顶天立地的意思：

形容形象高大，气慨豪迈。头顶云天，脚踏大地。

英文解释

(形容气概豪迈， 光明磊落) stand upright on one's two legs between heaven and earth -- of indomitable spirit;able to hold up the heavens, and to support the earth;fear nothing on earth;his head in the clouds and his feet on the earth -- a fine fellow;[电影]Return to China;

【解释】：头顶云天，脚踏大地。形容形象高大，气慨豪迈。

【出自】：宋·释普济《五灯会元》卷五十六：“汝等诸人，个个顶天立地。”元·纪君祥《赵氏孤儿》第一折：“我韩厥是一个顶天立地的男儿。”

【示例】：先生是楚国的栋梁，是～的柱石。

◎郭沫若《屈原》第三幕

【语法】：联合式;作定语、补语;用于人

中英例句

蔡国强回顾展上最引人注目的作品是一个汽车爆炸场景重现：在博物馆的圆形大堂，“顶天立地”地悬挂着几辆汽车，汽车周围有爆炸一样的放射状线条，不时闪烁着亮光。

One of the show's most eye-catching elements is his re-creation of a car bombing, which he made by suspending several cars in a tangle of blinking sparklers from the museum's ceiling to its rotunda floor.