英语词汇“edifice”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

edifice

/ˈɛdɪfɪs

noun formal

1A large, imposing building.Residential buildings and public edifices were built on a far larger scale than in previous years....

Forget your monuments, buildings and other such edifices, this city has trees.
It is an imposing edifice, a mock temple based on the classical Greek model, with a fine pediment and no fewer than six columns.

Synonyms

building, structure, construction, erection, pile, complex, assembly;

property, development, premises, establishment, place

2A complex system of beliefs: the concepts on which the edifice of capitalism was built...

Among the core fantasies on which the entire edifice rests is the belief that something called True Love exists.
Poverty and wars are becoming the order of the world threatening to demolish the very edifice patriarchal capitalism strives to protect.
All societies have moral rules, but only a few have elaborated them into systems - into what might be called moral edifices.

Late Middle English: via Old French from Latin aedificium, from aedis 'dwelling' + facere 'make'.

单词	edifice
释义	edifice /ˈɛdɪfɪs / noun formal 1A large, imposing building.Residential buildings and public edifices were built on a far larger scale than in previous years.... Forget your monuments, buildings and other such edifices, this city has trees. It is an imposing edifice, a mock temple based on the classical Greek model, with a fine pediment and no fewer than six columns. Synonyms building, structure, construction, erection, pile, complex, assembly; property, development, premises, establishment, place 2A complex system of beliefs: the concepts on which the edifice of capitalism was built... Among the core fantasies on which the entire edifice rests is the belief that something called True Love exists. Poverty and wars are becoming the order of the world threatening to demolish the very edifice patriarchal capitalism strives to protect. All societies have moral rules, but only a few have elaborated them into systems - into what might be called moral edifices. Origin Late Middle English: via Old French from Latin aedificium, from aedis 'dwelling' + facere 'make'.
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