edifices

英 [ɛˈdɪfɪsɪz]

美 [ˈɛdəfəsɪz]

n.  大厦; 宏伟建筑
edifice的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 大厦;雄伟的建筑物
  Anedificeis a large and impressive building.
  1. The American consulate was a magnificent edifice in the centre of Bordeaux.
     美国领事馆是位于波尔多市中心的一座宏伟的大厦。
• N-COUNT （信仰或传统制度的）体系，结构
  You can describe a system of beliefs or a traditional institution as anedifice.
  1. ...an edifice of British constitutional tradition.
     英国传统的宪政制度

双语例句

• These two iconic edifices will define Beijing for many visitors.
  对许多游客而言，这两个建筑会成为北京的标志式建筑。
• Such is life when your taxpayer dollars are directed mostly to propping up the edifices of banks that served mostly to enrich insiders when times are good.
  这就是现实&纳税人的钱大部分流向了银行，以支持他们渡过难关；而年成好时，银行多数情况下只会为内部人士谋福利。
• But some of these hallowed edifices are crumbling and in desperate need of repair.
  但是一些神圣的宏伟建筑却因年久失修而正在日益斑驳。
• Great edifices, like great mountains, are the work of centuries.
  伟大的建筑物，如同巍峨的山峦，是需要多少世纪的功夫才形成的。
• At the same time, archaeologists were undermining traditional "classical values" by discovering that the ancient temples of the Greeks were not the austere edifices people had believed them to be, but had been garish and multicoloured in their heyday.
  同时，考古学家们发现，希腊的古寺庙，其建筑并不象人们原以为的那样严肃朴素。而在其鼎盛时期却是十分华丽俗气的。这就动摇了传统的“古典派的价值观”。
• The difference is that you can visit the recently built edifices when they are shiny and new.
  区别在于你可以趁这些新造的大厦还很光鲜的时候去参观他们。
• In Childhood Impressions ( 2001), naked, innocent children are photoshopped onto backgrounds of iconic edifices that symbolize various moments in China's history.
  在《童年留影》（2001年）中，赤裸而天真的儿童用软件处理到象征中国历史上不同时期的标志性建筑物背景上。
• Near by the source, but because of strong reservoir heterogeneity, a poor reservoir reconstruction, and damage to the trap by faults which makes Complex relationship between air and water, the caldera-volcano edifices often do not have the conditions for making large complete volcanic gas reservoirs.
  破火山机构近源，但储层非均质强，储层改造差，断层对圈闭造成破坏，即使成藏，气水关系也十分复杂，往往不具备形成整装气藏的条件。
• Being far from the source rocks, reservoirs needing to be transformed by weathering, poor effectiveness of traps, and the traps in shield-volcano edifices are not found any oil and gas.
  盾状火山机构距离烃源岩较远，储层需要风化改造，圈闭有效性差，多个目标都未发现油气。
• And certainly if you are going to build great edifices, you probably do have to take risk.
  当然如果你要建筑伟业的话，就必须要冒风险。