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edifice

/ed-uh-fis/US // ˈɛd ə fɪs //UK // (ˈɛdɪfɪs) //

大厦,大楼,建筑物,大厦大厦

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a building, especially one of large size or imposing appearance.
    • : any large, complex system or organization.

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Examples

  • Some of the indoor-size pieces at the venue — notably “Exterior,” a sort of self-contained canyon — are built in the same way as the public edifices.

  • For years, residents have pleaded for the city to convert the handsome red-brick edifice and two-acre grounds into the kind of community center many neighborhoods take for granted.

  • Such an edifice would be comparable to those found all over Mars, said Hamilton, which means this eruption could allow scientists to watch one grow on Earth in real time.

  • They held theirs at the high school football stadium, a hulking edifice that can seat 15,000.

  • Eventually I get there, and call “Eddie” from outside the vast edifice.

  • Even at two stories, the brick edifice seems to tower over the rest of the town.

  • And this is a very unstable edifice on which to build even a limited verbal machine.

  • DS: I can remember the moment when I was eleven years old where the religious edifice cracked for me.

  • A stage was erected next to the edifice and hundreds would gather to watch floggings, crying out “Allahu Akbar!”

  • It was an antique, half-Gothic, half-Saracenic looking edifice, which they now approached.

  • The building in which meat and vegetables are sold, is a fine handsome edifice resembling a temple.

  • Enter the sacred edifice slowly, reverentially, and take your seat quietly.

  • A rich, tender sunshine is streaming in through the windows, and gilding the stately edifice with the purest light.

  • The cathedral is one of lesserPg 273 importance among the great English churches, though on the whole it is an imposing edifice.