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。
• I met the nearest monstrosity, a charging fungal blur of wings and antennae and appendages, with my fist.
  于是，我挥拳击中了离我最近的那个畸形怪物，它头上长着触角，有多个附肢，还有一对布满斑驳霉菌的翅膀。
• Her flower arrangement was a monstrosity.
  她插的花真是难看死了。
• If you can call that monstrosity good.
  如果你是说它有另类的美的话。
• F the statement is two pages long, a huge monstrosity, a feature of our query tool called Annotation puts all the elements into a format so you can read it.
  如果语句有两页那么长，就像一个庞然大物，查询工具中的一个称为Annotation的功能可将所有元素转换为一种格式，以便您可以读取它。
• 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。
• But the actor might have gone for something a little more attractive than the ugly, teal green monstrosity he was zooming around in.
  然而，吸引这位演员的应该不仅仅是他所驾驶的那辆丑陋的蓝绿色怪物！
• 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。
• An uplifting gospel tune with a ferocious polemic on the monstrosity of Hollywood culture?
  高亢的福音曲调之后，是对好莱坞文化这个怪兽的激烈驳斥。
• However, when combined with the western standard of wide jaw bone and a big smile, it creates a monstrosity that most Chinese man will turn away from.
  然而，结合西方标准的宽下颚骨和大笑脸，便造就了一个中国人看了想吐的怪物。