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

• And certainly if you are going to build great edifices, you probably do have to take risk.
  当然如果你要建筑伟业的话，就必须要冒风险。
• However, splendid edifices and a lively arts scene do not necessarily make Singapore a renaissance city.
  但是，壮观的建筑物和热闹的艺术景象，并不一定能使我们建设成一个文艺复兴城市。
• 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。
• 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；
• 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。
• Great edifices, like great mountains, are the work of centuries.
  伟大的建筑物，如同巍峨的山峦，是需要多少世纪的功夫才形成的。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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”。
• 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。