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

• 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 palace is a monstrosity.
  宫殿建得很怪异。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The new office building is a real monstrosity.
  新的办公大楼真是丑得可怕。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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！
• EXAMPLE: Some people liked the famous architect's unusual new office building, but other people considered it to be a monstrosity.
  有些人喜欢这位著名建筑师设计的奇特的新办公楼，但也有些人认为它是个大怪物。