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。
• Letting you create such a monstrosity.
  你父母送你上学就是叫你画这么个怪物吗？
• 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。
• I met the nearest monstrosity, a charging fungal blur of wings and antennae and appendages, with my fist.
  于是，我挥拳击中了离我最近的那个畸形怪物，它头上长着触角，有多个附肢，还有一对布满斑驳霉菌的翅膀。
• You'll have me in some hootchie-mama monstrosity.
  你会让我看起来像跳肚皮舞的怪物。
• London is the grandest and most complex monstrosity on earth.
  伦敦是世界上最庞大最复杂的怪物。
• 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。
• The palace is a monstrosity.
  宫殿建得很怪异。
• Her flower arrangement was a monstrosity.
  她插的花真是难看死了。
• 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。