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

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。
Letting you create such a monstrosity.
你父母送你上学就是叫你画这么个怪物吗？
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。
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。
So now we have this monstrosity, let's rewrite our original code fragments using it.
好现在我们有了这个大怪物，让我们用它重写我们开始的代码片段。
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。
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。
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。
Her flower arrangement was a monstrosity.
她插的花真是难看死了。
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。