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 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。
• 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。
• 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”。
• "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。
• These edifices consist of nothing other than sankharas as conditioned things, the conditioned formations comprised in the five aggregates.
  这些结构由有为的诸行组成，也就是，由有为的造作形成的五蕴。
• In Childhood Impressions ( 2001), naked, innocent children are photoshopped onto backgrounds of iconic edifices that symbolize various moments in China's history.
  在《童年留影》（2001年）中，赤裸而天真的儿童用软件处理到象征中国历史上不同时期的标志性建筑物背景上。
• He would remember that it was the color with which the hangman smeared "accursed" edifices;
  他会想起，那是刽子手用来粉刷恶贯满盈建筑物的颜色；
• 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。
• But the IOC likes host cities to erect grand edifices with the Olympic name on them.
  但那些建起带有奥运名称的高楼大厦的主办城市才能得到国际奥委会的青睐。
• 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。