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
- If you can call that monstrosity good.
如果你是说它有另类的美的话。 - The palace is a monstrosity.
宫殿建得很怪异。 - 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。 - So now we have this monstrosity, let's rewrite our original code fragments using it.
好现在我们有了这个大怪物,让我们用它重写我们开始的代码片段。 - 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。 - 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。 - You'll have me in some hootchie-mama monstrosity.
你会让我看起来像跳肚皮舞的怪物。 - 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! - 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。 - 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。