monolith
monolith 英 [ˈmɒnəlɪθ] 美 [ˈmɑnəlɪθ]
n. 整块石料；庞然大物
名词复数:monoliths
- When something is really huge, like a giant stone, building, or company, call it a monolith. You can also use it to describe a huge amount of work, like the monolith that is your 40-page term paper.
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- n. 整块石料；庞然大物
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1. Why should all Communist parties and groups necessarily form a monolith?
为什么一切赤色政党与团体都必然要团结一致呢？
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2. “Sometimes one sees writers just standing before it, like early hominids in front of a monolith,” said Nick Denton, Gawker Media’s founder.
“有时有人会注意到作者们只是站在它面前，犹如原始人类站在巨石前一样，”高科传媒的创始人尼克.丹顿说。
- monolith (n.) "column consisting of a single large block of stone," 1848, from French monolithe (16c.), from Latin monolithus (adj.) "consisting of a single stone," from Greek monolithos "made of one stone," from monos "single, alone" (from PIE root *men- (4) "small, isolated") + lithos "stone" (see litho-). Transferred and figurative use is from 1934.
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