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

• 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。
• 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。
• Finally, for the concerns with the localization of the foreign constructions, the inspiration and prospect is stated for the modernization of religious edifices, which is to relate contemporaneous architectural context with applicable resources under the same environment and use improved traditional technologies.
  最后，出于对外来本土化建筑的生存关注，提出了宗教建筑现代化的启示与展望&同时代与环境的文脉及适用的资源相关联，并使用改进的传统技术。
• But these are the principal masses which were then to be distinguished when the eye began to accustom itself to this tumult of edifices.
  然而，当我们的眼睛渐渐适应这纷陈杂沓的建筑物时，还是可以区分出主要一些群体来的。
• 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。
• "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”。
• The main structures of Early Cretaceous in the area are NE and NW faults, which control not only the major boundaries of the basins, but also some volcanic edifices.
  该区早白垩世的主要构造行迹为NE向和NW向的断裂构造；这些断裂构造控制着火山沉积盆地的边界和一些火山机构的分布。
• 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。
• 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；