edifices

英 [ɛˈdɪfɪsɪz]

美 [ˈɛdəfəsɪz]

n.  大厦; 宏伟建筑
edifice的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 大厦;雄伟的建筑物
  Anedificeis a large and impressive building.
  1. The American consulate was a magnificent edifice in the centre of Bordeaux.
     美国领事馆是位于波尔多市中心的一座宏伟的大厦。
• N-COUNT （信仰或传统制度的）体系，结构
  You can describe a system of beliefs or a traditional institution as anedifice.
  1. ...an edifice of British constitutional tradition.
     英国传统的宪政制度

双语例句

• The difference is that you can visit the recently built edifices when they are shiny and new.
  区别在于你可以趁这些新造的大厦还很光鲜的时候去参观他们。
• But some of these hallowed edifices are crumbling and in desperate need of repair.
  但是一些神圣的宏伟建筑却因年久失修而正在日益斑驳。
• "We must not allow the developers to do what they want, filling our cities with gaudy edifices," Zhang said.
  “我们绝不能允许开发商为所欲为，在我们的城市中建满华而不实的大厦。”张祖刚说。
• At the same time, archaeologists were undermining traditional "classical values" by discovering that the ancient temples of the Greeks were not the austere edifices people had believed them to be, but had been garish and multicoloured in their heyday.
  同时，考古学家们发现，希腊的古寺庙，其建筑并不象人们原以为的那样严肃朴素。而在其鼎盛时期却是十分华丽俗气的。这就动摇了传统的“古典派的价值观”。
• Great edifices, like great mountains, are the work of centuries.
  伟大的建筑物，如同巍峨的山峦，是需要多少世纪的功夫才形成的。
• They complain that the monstrous edifices interfere with television reception.
  他们抱怨说，那些怪物般的庞大建筑，干扰了电视接收。
• Decaying cities filled with huge, looming edifices cast shadows on the destitute and the damned.
  满是巨大的海市蜃楼般大厦的腐朽城市，投下困乏黯淡、令人厌恶的阴影。
• Such is life when your taxpayer dollars are directed mostly to propping up the edifices of banks that served mostly to enrich insiders when times are good.
  这就是现实&纳税人的钱大部分流向了银行，以支持他们渡过难关；而年成好时，银行多数情况下只会为内部人士谋福利。
• The scalability, cost and migration options vary by vendor and technique. Hence, complex monuments, edifices of gradation and transition.
  因供应商和技术的不同，扩展性、成本和过渡的方式也都不同。由此产生了复合式建筑物，产生了过渡性的、细微差别的建筑物。
• Being far from the source rocks, reservoirs needing to be transformed by weathering, poor effectiveness of traps, and the traps in shield-volcano edifices are not found any oil and gas.
  盾状火山机构距离烃源岩较远，储层需要风化改造，圈闭有效性差，多个目标都未发现油气。