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monstrosity

英 [mɒnˈstrɒsəti]

美 [mɑːnˈstrɑːsəti]

n.  巨大而丑陋之物(尤指建筑)

复数:monstrosities 

医学

BNC.19780 / COCA.20121

牛津词典

    noun

    • 巨大而丑陋之物(尤指建筑)
      something that is very large and very ugly, especially a building
      1. a concrete monstrosity
        混凝土建成的庞大怪物

    柯林斯词典

    • N-COUNT 极其丑陋的庞然大物
      If you describe something, especially something large, as amonstrosity, you mean that you think it is extremely ugly.
      1. Most of the older buildings have been torn down and replaced by modern monstrosities.
        大部分旧建筑已被拆除,取而代之的是丑陋的现代建筑物。

    英英释义

    noun

    • something hideous or frightful
      1. they regarded the atom bomb as a monstrosity
    • a person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed
        Synonym:freakmonsterlusus naturae

      双语例句

      • I wash't expecting somewhere called meadow court to be a huge concrete monstrosity.
        我没料到一个名叫草地公寓的地方会是一幢庞大的混凝土怪物。
      • Near relative wedding was still one of the main reasons to beget I nheri tance disease and congenital monstrosity infants.
        近亲婚配家族生育子女仍是出现遗传病和先天畸形儿的主要原因之一。
      • A translation which should literally reproduce the idiomatic structure of its original would be a monstrosity.
        按照惯用结构,单从字面翻译会成为怪物。
      • Letting you create such a monstrosity.
        你父母送你上学就是叫你画这么个怪物吗?
      • If people will pay extra for meat from a monstrosity like the Belgian blue, anything is possible.
        也许人们乐于为购买像比利时蓝色那样的巨型怪物的肉而多套腰包呐,任何事情皆有可能。
      • Today, it's a bureaucratic monstrosity manned by scores of human resource professionals, ruled by committees and governed by thousands of pages of rules and regulations.
        现在,它成了繁琐拖拉的庞大官僚主义程序,由数十名人力资源专家运作、有委员会进行管理,并有长达数千页的规章制度作出种种限定。
      • That monstrosity they call a shopping mall!
        那个他们称之为购物中心的巨大而丑陋的建筑。
      • Most of the older buildings have been torn down and replaced by modern monstrosities.
        大部分旧建筑已被拆除,取而代之的是丑陋的现代建筑物。
      • London is the grandest and most complex monstrosity on earth.
        伦敦是世界上最庞大最复杂的怪物。
      • So now we have this monstrosity, let's rewrite our original code fragments using it.
        好现在我们有了这个大怪物,让我们用它重写我们开始的代码片段。