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

  1. 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

  1. N-COUNT 极其丑陋的庞然大物
    If you describe something, especially something large, as a monstrosity, 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。

双语例句

  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。
  2. 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。
  3. 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。
  4. 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。
  5. 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。
  6. 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。
  7. 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。
  8. 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。
  9. 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。
  10. 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。
  11. The palace is a monstrosity.
    宫殿建得很怪异。
  12. Her flower arrangement was a monstrosity.
    她插的花真是难看死了。
  13. 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。
  14. 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。
  15. If you can call that monstrosity good.
    如果你是说它有另类的美的话。
  16. If people will pay extra for meat from a monstrosity like the Belgian blue, anything is possible.
    也许人们乐于为购买像比利时蓝色那样的巨型怪物的肉而多套腰包呐,任何事情皆有可能。
  17. 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。
  18. The deck of this monstrosity is surrounded by independently-rotating anti-aircraft guns, each one bigger than the tank.
    它的甲板被自主旋转防空机枪环绕着,每个机枪都比坦克大。
  19. You'll have me in some hootchie-mama monstrosity.
    你会让我看起来像跳肚皮舞的怪物。
  20. That new multi storey car park is an utter monstrosity!
    那座新建的多层停车场难看极了!
  21. 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。
  22. The new office building is a real monstrosity.
    新的办公大楼真是丑得可怕。
  23. 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!
  24. 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。
  25. 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。
  26. Our guide restored the divine character of monstrosity.
    我们的领导恢复了那非。
  27. 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。
  28. 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。
  29. Letting you create such a monstrosity.
    你父母送你上学就是叫你画这么个怪物吗?

英英释义

noun

  1. something hideous or frightful
    1. they regarded the atom bomb as a monstrosity

  2. a person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed

      Synonym:    freakmonsterlusus naturae