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

• 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

• 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.
  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。

英英释义

noun

• something hideous or frightful
  1. they regarded the atom bomb as a monstrosity
• a person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed
  Synonym:freakmonsterlusus naturae

双语例句

• 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。
• 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。
• That new multi storey car park is an utter monstrosity!
  那座新建的多层停车场难看极了！
• Letting you create such a monstrosity.
  你父母送你上学就是叫你画这么个怪物吗？
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Our guide restored the divine character of monstrosity.
  我们的领导恢复了那非。