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

• 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。
• 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。
• Therefore, the environmental colors of the edifices and the whole city building get more harmony.
  使建筑群乃至整个城市建筑环境色彩更加统一、协调。
• 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；
• And certainly if you are going to build great edifices, you probably do have to take risk.
  当然如果你要建筑伟业的话，就必须要冒风险。
• 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。
• The landscaping and many of the buildings are traditional Chinese, but the campus also boasts many Western-style edifices, such as the quad and auditorium: T.
  此外，虽然校园内的景色和建筑都是传统中国式，但也有许多西式建筑物，例如方院和礼堂。
• 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。
• 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”。