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单词 edifice
释义
edifice
noun[C]
formal
uk
/ˈed.ɪ.fɪs/us
/ˈed.ə.fɪs/
alargebuilding,especiallyanimpressiveone:
（尤指雄伟豪华的）大厦，宏伟建筑
Thetownhallis the only edificesurvivingfrom the 15thcentury.市政厅是唯一一座存留下来的15世纪的雄伟建筑。
Synonyms
building
construction(BUILDING)
erection(BUILDING)
structure(BUILDING)
asystemthat has beenestablishedfor alongtime:
精神大厦（比喻存在已久的体系等）
Itlooksas if thewholepoliticaledifice of thecountryis about tocollapse.看来整个国家的政治局势是风雨飘摇、大厦将倾。
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  • bunkhouse
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  • half-timbered
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  • heritage-listed building
  • high-rise
  • non-residential
  • non-structural
  • Norman
  • observation tower
  • outstation
  • pod
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(Definition ofedificefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

edifice| American Dictionary

edifice
noun[C]
fml
us
/ˈed·ə·fəs/
alargebuilding:
Thestatecapitolis animposingedificetoppedby alargedome.
(Definition ofedificefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofedifice

edifice
The magmatic activity built up one, or several, submarine edifices, > 200 m thick.
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Around the edifices a layer of sand imitated syn-volcanic sediments.
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The evidential bricks can be cemented together in a multitude of edifices and thus only modest, conditional and focused advice should be expected from research synthesis.
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Both rural and urban committees, however, were fairly timid in making decisions, fearful of the potential for desecration of controversial edifices, and anxious to provide an appearance of working-class participation.
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With their magnificent topographical edifices and the dramatic stories associated with their formation and eruptive processes they can lend themselves to well illustrated, interesting and informative texts.
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The plan included the building of streets and regulating traffic, clearing the beach from existing edifices, such as the public baths, but its centrepiece was the promenade.
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Does he not agree that, to put the matter very kindly indeed, these edifices are at the very least hideous, impractical and expensive?
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We must go along with that as we must not build great programmes and edifices of destruction on conjectural evidence.
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They seem to want to immortalise themselves by erecting edifices that no one in the rural communities, other than themselves, wants.
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The edifices are just as magnificent, and there is an enormous number of employees.
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I do not want to build great edifices on a weak foundation.
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We have seen some of the buying edifices in those parts of the world crumble and sometimes crack.
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We want to safeguard the edifices of these great historical buildings.
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On the other hand, it ill becomes those who live in ceramic edifices to play with projectiles.
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Why should we not have much cheaper edifices built in the countryside, not far from the centres of crime?
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
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