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
- That new multi storey car park is an utter monstrosity!
那座新建的多层停车场难看极了！ - That monstrosity they call a shopping mall!
那个他们称之为购物中心的巨大而丑陋的建筑。 - 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。 - 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。 - But the actor might have gone for something a little more attractive than the ugly, teal green monstrosity he was zooming around in.
然而，吸引这位演员的应该不仅仅是他所驾驶的那辆丑陋的蓝绿色怪物！ - You'll have me in some hootchie-mama monstrosity.
你会让我看起来像跳肚皮舞的怪物。 - As that monstrosity of venal lust is no longer possible, it is no longer needed.
以金钱去购买淫欲的丑事既然不可能再存在下去，那么也就不再有需要了。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。