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
- The palace is a monstrosity.
宫殿建得很怪异。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - You'll have me in some hootchie-mama monstrosity.
你会让我看起来像跳肚皮舞的怪物。 - If you can call that monstrosity good.
如果你是说它有另类的美的话。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。