monument 的 2 个定义
- something erected in memory of a person, event, etc., as a building, pillar, or statue: the Washington Monument.
- any building, megalith, etc., surviving from a past age, and regarded as of historical or archaeological importance.
- any enduring evidence or notable example of something: a monument to human ingenuity.
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- to build a monument or monuments to; commemorate: to monument the nation's war dead.
- to build a monument on: to monument a famous site.
monument 近义词
memorial, remembrance
更多monument例句
- Scientists have been trying to figure out how ancient people developed their tools and built their cities and monuments.
- Like so many of our museums and monuments, it’s always some place you’ve been meaning to go.
- Hearing sounds of some kind circulating inside the ancient monument “must have been one of the fundamental experiences of Stonehenge.”
- Ginzel said that traditional monuments, such as the Columbus statues, can be problematic because they represent power from a specific point of view.
- People living back then often created monuments to frame views of natural features, she says.
- The man whom Time dubbed a “Black Leonardo,” became the first African-American to have a national monument dedicated to him.
- But, in my mind—and many of the townspeople—the monument was far from the main attraction.
- On one occasion, a drone operator flew a drone over a crowd at Mount Rushmore, then out over the monument itself.
- At its center was a monument, perhaps just over six feet high.
- The entire city can seem like a singular monument to his decades in office.
- After his death crowds flocked to his grave to touch his holy monument, till the authorities caused the church yard to be shut.
- In a statuesque attitude, she sat, like Marius on the ruins of Carthage, or Patience on a monument smiling at grief.
- His grand work, the Animal Kingdom, forms an imperishable monument of his genius.
- It is undoubtedly Cavaill-Coll's finest work, and a lasting monument to his genius.
- The column was suggested in 1862 as a suitable monument to the memory of the late Prince Albert.