monstrosity
monstrosity 英 [mɒnˈstrɒsəti] 美 [mɑnˈstrɑsəti]
n. 畸形；可怕的东西；残暴
名词复数:monstrosities
- A monstrosity is something so hideous that you can hardly stand to look at it, like a zombie or an ugly modern building.
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- n. 畸形；可怕的东西；残暴
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1. A good example is the main train station – a concrete monstrosity that hardly evokes the romance of travel.
火车总站这座难以激起旅行浪漫快感的混凝土怪物，就是一个极好的例子。
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2. A hard-money advocate, suspicious of personal debt, Jackson viewed the Bank as a monstrosity that gave power over the people's money to a few unelected private bankers.
作为一个珍惜血汗钱、怀疑个人借债的倡导者，杰克逊视银行为少数未经选举的私人银行家支配人民财富的畸形产物。
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3. Or is it a filthy indulgence, a manufactured monstrosity for which we should justifiably be taxed?
还是说它纯属令人堕落的嗜好、一个人造的魔兽，所以我们就理应赋税？
- monstrosity (n.) 1550s, "abnormality of growth," from Late Latin monstrositas "strangeness," from Latin monstrosus, a collateral form of monstruosus (source of French monstruosité); see monster. Earlier form was monstruosity (c. 1400). Sense of "quality of being monstrous" is first recorded 1650s. Meaning "a monster" is attested from 1640s.
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