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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Letting you create such a monstrosity.
  你父母送你上学就是叫你画这么个怪物吗？
• 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。
• 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。
• That new multi storey car park is an utter monstrosity!
  那座新建的多层停车场难看极了！
• 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。