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

• 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”。
• For a time Klimt was allowed to work on the public edifices of a society at its cultural height, creating allegorical panels in a neo-classical, neo-Baroque vein.
  有一段时间，克里姆特被允许在社会的文化圈中公开地工作，创作新古典主义的、新巴洛克风格的寓言式油画。
• 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。
• These two iconic edifices will define Beijing for many visitors.
  对许多游客而言，这两个建筑会成为北京的标志式建筑。
• "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。
• Late Mesozoic volcanic edifices of Fujian Province
  福建省中生代晚期火山机构
• 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；
• 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。
• 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。