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
- 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。 - 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! - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - That monstrosity they call a shopping mall!
那个他们称之为购物中心的巨大而丑陋的建筑。