| 单词 | edifice |
| 释义 | edifice (edɪfɪs ) Word forms: edifices 1. countable noun [usually adjective NOUN] An edifice is a large and impressive building. [formal] The American consulate was a magnificent edifice in the centre of Bordeaux. 2. countable noun [usually with supplement] You can describe a system of beliefs or a traditional institution as an edifice. [formal] ...an edifice of British constitutional tradition. Collocations: entire edifice Yet it was on this feeble and dodgy dossier that an entire edifice of advice was built. Times, Sunday Times (2014) The entire edifice, our politics, economics and moral science is haunted by it. Times, Sunday Times (2010) I feared the entire edifice would collapse. Times, Sunday Times (2012) The entire edifice stinks - and the scent has been in our nostrils for a along time. Times, Sunday Times (2015) Underlying the entire edifice was the myth of industrialization schemes based on " savings" from the countryside. The Origins of Economic Inequality between Nations: A critique of Western theories on development and underdevelopment (1990) The whole edifice is not built upon valuable assets - banks own little of tangible worth. Times, Sunday Times (2007) Before our eyes the whole edifice of apartheid was collapsing. Times, Sunday Times (2010) It is the relationship between the two intensely driven men upon which the whole edifice rests. Times, Sunday Times (2012) Remove those foundations and the whole edifice could come crashing down. Times, Sunday Times (2014) The whole edifice collapses if you go there. Times, Sunday Times (2011) Translations: Chinese: 大厦 Japanese: 大建築 |
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