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

• 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。
• Hence, the prodigious exterior variety of these edifices, at whose foundation dwells so much order and unity.
  因而这些建筑物的外表变化无穷，其内部却井然有序，浑然一体。
• The volcanic region in Kuocangshan district of Zhejing is the volcanic structure combinatorial body composed of different stages and different volcanic edifices.
  括苍山火山岩区是由不同阶段、不同火山机构组成的火山构造组合体。总体的构造格局是隆起和断块。
• This circular structure is mainly composed of circular faulted coal-bearing volcanic basins in margin belt, faulted coal-bearing volcanic basins and edifices in centre, and genetic series of granite distributed circularly. This structure occurs as the shape of a circle and has a diameter of 270 km.
  这个环形构造主要由外环带的环形断陷火山含煤盆地，中心区的断焰火山含煤盆地和火山机构，以及呈现环带状分布的花岗岩成因系列等部分组成，其形态呈现圆形，直径270km。
• 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。
• 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；
• However, splendid edifices and a lively arts scene do not necessarily make Singapore a renaissance city.
  但是，壮观的建筑物和热闹的艺术景象，并不一定能使我们建设成一个文艺复兴城市。
• Late Mesozoic volcanic edifices of Fujian Province
  福建省中生代晚期火山机构
• 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。