edifices

英 [ɛˈdɪfɪsɪz]

美 [ˈɛdəfəsɪz]

n.  大厦; 宏伟建筑
edifice的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 大厦;雄伟的建筑物
  Anedificeis a large and impressive building.
  1. The American consulate was a magnificent edifice in the centre of Bordeaux.
     美国领事馆是位于波尔多市中心的一座宏伟的大厦。
• N-COUNT （信仰或传统制度的）体系，结构
  You can describe a system of beliefs or a traditional institution as anedifice.
  1. ...an edifice of British constitutional tradition.
     英国传统的宪政制度

双语例句

• The volcanic region in Kuocangshan district of Zhejing is the volcanic structure combinatorial body composed of different stages and different volcanic edifices.
  括苍山火山岩区是由不同阶段、不同火山机构组成的火山构造组合体。总体的构造格局是隆起和断块。
• According to the cause of formation, form, and the deposit's structure, the volcanic edifices includes Hawaiian, St rombolian, sub-Plinian, maar, and composite types.
  据其成因、形态及其堆积物的结构特征等，火山机构类型可划分为夏威夷型、斯通博里型、亚布里尼型、玛珥型和复合型等类型。
• But these are the principal masses which were then to be distinguished when the eye began to accustom itself to this tumult of edifices.
  然而，当我们的眼睛渐渐适应这纷陈杂沓的建筑物时，还是可以区分出主要一些群体来的。
• Such is life when your taxpayer dollars are directed mostly to propping up the edifices of banks that served mostly to enrich insiders when times are good.
  这就是现实&纳税人的钱大部分流向了银行，以支持他们渡过难关；而年成好时，银行多数情况下只会为内部人士谋福利。
• They complain that the monstrous edifices interfere with television reception.
  他们抱怨说，那些怪物般的庞大建筑，干扰了电视接收。
• Decaying cities filled with huge, looming edifices cast shadows on the destitute and the damned.
  满是巨大的海市蜃楼般大厦的腐朽城市，投下困乏黯淡、令人厌恶的阴影。
• Hence, the prodigious exterior variety of these edifices, at whose foundation dwells so much order and unity.
  因而这些建筑物的外表变化无穷，其内部却井然有序，浑然一体。
• Great edifices, like great mountains, are the work of centuries.
  伟大的建筑物，如同巍峨的山峦，是需要多少世纪的功夫才形成的。
• But the IOC likes host cities to erect grand edifices with the Olympic name on them.
  但那些建起带有奥运名称的高楼大厦的主办城市才能得到国际奥委会的青睐。
• At the same time, archaeologists were undermining traditional "classical values" by discovering that the ancient temples of the Greeks were not the austere edifices people had believed them to be, but had been garish and multicoloured in their heyday.
  同时，考古学家们发现，希腊的古寺庙，其建筑并不象人们原以为的那样严肃朴素。而在其鼎盛时期却是十分华丽俗气的。这就动摇了传统的“古典派的价值观”。