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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

      • 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。
      • 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。
      • 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。
      • 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。
      • They put too heavy a burden on it, so the final product has become an oversized monstrosity capable of doing nothing.
        但他们给它背负了过重的负担,以至于最终产品竟然成了一个排不上用场的怪物。
      • The hapless developer of this monstrosity came up with the clever idea of only locking things when they are actually about to be used, but deferring unlocking until the end of a run.
        这个坏程序的开发者起初的想法是好的,即只在真正需要使用之前才锁定这些互斥量,但是他却直到运行结束才解锁。
      • That new multi storey car park is an utter monstrosity!
        那座新建的多层停车场难看极了!
      • The palace is a monstrosity.
        宫殿建得很怪异。
      • Her flower arrangement was a monstrosity.
        她插的花真是难看死了。
      • While we are all being toxified and duped by the monstrosity that is Monsanto, there are some whose lives are being completely ruined by them.
        当我们都被孟山都这个怪物下毒弄晕的时候,有些人的生活则完全地被他们给毁了。