monstrosity
英 [mɒnˈstrɒsəti]
美 [mɑːnˈstrɑːsəti]
n. 巨大而丑陋之物(尤指建筑)
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- a concrete monstrosity
混凝土建成的庞大怪物
- a concrete monstrosity
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.- 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。
- Most of the older buildings have been torn down and replaced by modern monstrosities.
英英释义
noun
- something hideous or frightful
- they regarded the atom bomb as a monstrosity
- a person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed
双语例句
- Her flower arrangement was a monstrosity.
她插的花真是难看死了。 - That new multi storey car park is an utter monstrosity!
那座新建的多层停车场难看极了! - 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。 - As that monstrosity of venal lust is no longer possible, it is no longer needed.
以金钱去购买淫欲的丑事既然不可能再存在下去,那么也就不再有需要了。 - 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。 - The Eiffel Tower was considered a monstrosity when it was first built.
埃菲尔铁塔初建成时被视为丑陋的庞然大物。 - 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。 - The palace is a monstrosity.
宫殿建得很怪异。 - 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。