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