edifice
edifice 英 [ˈedɪfɪs] 美 [ˈɛdəfɪs]
n. 大厦；大建筑物
名词复数:edifices
- Edifice means a building, but it doesn't mean just any building. To merit being called an edifice, a building must be important. A mini temple can be an edifice, or a towering sky scraper.
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- n. 大厦；大建筑物
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1. We have constructed the entire edifice of our civilisation on this idea.
我们基于这一知觉构建了我们文明的整个大厦。
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2. Here we have the ability to build a thing from day to day, whether it is skill at something or an actual edifice.
我们拥有一天天坚持做某件事的能力，无论它最终是一种技能还是一座宏伟的大厦。
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3. Both buildings were designed in art nouveau style, though many of the finishing touches have since disappeared from the dilapidated edifice.
这两座建筑物在设计上有新艺术派的风格，虽然摇摇欲坠的大厦上很多细节已经消失无考。
- edifice (n.) late 14c., from Old French edifice "building" (12c.), from Latin aedificium "building," from aedificare "to erect a building," from aedis, variant of aedes "temple, sanctuary," usually a single edifice without partitions, also, in the plural, "dwelling house, building," originally "a place with a hearth" + combining form of facere "to make, to do" (from PIE root *dhe- "to set, put").
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