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

• In Childhood Impressions ( 2001), naked, innocent children are photoshopped onto backgrounds of iconic edifices that symbolize various moments in China's history.
  在《童年留影》（2001年）中，赤裸而天真的儿童用软件处理到象征中国历史上不同时期的标志性建筑物背景上。
• This circular structure is mainly composed of circular faulted coal-bearing volcanic basins in margin belt, faulted coal-bearing volcanic basins and edifices in centre, and genetic series of granite distributed circularly. This structure occurs as the shape of a circle and has a diameter of 270 km.
  这个环形构造主要由外环带的环形断陷火山含煤盆地，中心区的断焰火山含煤盆地和火山机构，以及呈现环带状分布的花岗岩成因系列等部分组成，其形态呈现圆形，直径270km。
• 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”。
• And certainly if you are going to build great edifices, you probably do have to take risk.
  当然如果你要建筑伟业的话，就必须要冒风险。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The landscaping and many of the buildings are traditional Chinese, but the campus also boasts many Western-style edifices, such as the quad and auditorium: T.
  此外，虽然校园内的景色和建筑都是传统中国式，但也有许多西式建筑物，例如方院和礼堂。
• The scalability, cost and migration options vary by vendor and technique. Hence, complex monuments, edifices of gradation and transition.
  因供应商和技术的不同，扩展性、成本和过渡的方式也都不同。由此产生了复合式建筑物，产生了过渡性的、细微差别的建筑物。