monstrous
['mɔnstrəs]
adj.怪异的,畸形的, 巨大的
例句与用法:
The modern city consists of monstrous edifices and of dark narrow streets full of petrol fumes, coal dust, and toxic gases.
现代城市是由大得怕人的大厦和充斥着难闻的汽油味,煤灰和有毒气体和又阴暗又狭窄的街道所组成。
A style of painting, sculpture, and ornamentation in which natural forms and monstrous figures are intertwined in bizarre or fanciful combinations.
奇异风格,形状怪诞的图案一种自然的形式和奇异的图形以一种奇异或古怪的方式结合在一起的绘画雕塑和装饰风格
All the students were burning with anger at this monstrous crime.
所有的学生对这残暴的罪行都感到无比的愤慨。
The tree planted by the magician quickly grew to a monstrous height.
魔术师种下的树很快就长得极其高大。
词形变化:
副词: monstrously | 名词: monstrousness |
a.
1. 怪异的; 似怪物的
a monstrous creature
一种怪异的生物
2. 丑陋的; 可怕的, 毛骨悚然的
monstrous sharks
可怕的鲨鱼
3. 丑恶的; 骇人听闻的; 极端荒谬的
It is monstrous to preach hatred.
向人们鼓吹仇恨, 这种行径太可恶了。
a monstrous crime
一桩骇人听闻的罪行
4. 巨大的, 庞大的
a monstrous oil tanker
一艘巨大的油轮
ad.
【古】【方】非常, 很
monstrous
词形变化:
副词: monstrously | 名词: monstrousness |
词义辨析:
同义:
a.可怕的; 怪异的
horrible
dreadful
shocking
grotesque
deformed
disfigured
同义参见:
bulky
alarming
criminal
frightful
flagrant
abnormal
desperation
jumbo
monstrous['mɔnstrəs]adj.1.■怪异的;丑陋的2.■骇人听闻的;令人恐怖的3.■极端荒谬(或错误)的4.■(动、植物)畸形的5.■怪物般的;似怪物的6.■巨大的,庞大的7.■[用以加强语气]极度的,强烈的8.■[废语]奇怪的9.■[废语]充满怪物的adv.1.■[古语、方言]非常,很,极
monstrousmonstrous[ˈmɔnstrəs]adj.1.■巨大的2.■异形的; 畸形的3.■怪异的; 荒诞的4.■令人吃惊的; 恐怖的a monstrous sum巨款monstrous crimes滔天罪行
词性变化monstrous[ˈmɔnstrəs]adv.1.■[俗]很, 极端地; 非常地
继承用法monstrouslyadv.monstrousnessn.
adjective
- having the ugly or frightening appearance of a monster
丑陋的;可怕的
monstrous, bug-eyed fish.
眼睛暴突的怪鱼。
■(of a person or an action) inhumanly or outrageously evil or wrong
(人,行为)邪恶的,骇人听闻的
he wasn't lovable, he was monstrous and violent.
他不可爱,他邪恶又暴虐。
it is a monstrous waste of money.
这样浪费钱是骇人听闻的。
■extremely and dauntingly large
巨大的,庞大的
the monstrous tidal wave swamped the surrounding countryside.
巨潮淹没了周围乡村。
monstrously
adverb
monstrousness
noun
语源
- late Middle English (in the sense 'strange or unnatural'): from Old French monstreux or Latin monstrosus, from monstrum (see monster). Current senses date from the 16th cent
monstrous
形容词 monstrous:
abnormally large
shockingly brutal or cruel
同义词:atrocious, flagitious, grievous, heinous
distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous
monstrous
■They complain that the monstrous edifices interfere with television reception.
"他们抱怨说,那些怪物般的庞大建筑,干扰了电视接收。"
■Brogan’s undergraduates this power of Japanese parents to forbid love would seem monstrous, but the similar power of husbands and or wives would seem a matter of course.
3.我为什么重视日本这个对手?
■"There was no excess too monstrous for them to commit" (Nicholas P.S. Wiseman).
“多么令人感到可怕的事他们都能干出来” (尼古拉斯·P.S·魏兹曼)
■"There was no excess too monstrous for them to commit"(Nicholas P.S. Wiseman).
“多么令人感到可怕的事他们都能干出来”(尼古拉斯·P。S·魏兹曼)
■One day Callisto suddenly found herself changed into a bear, with monstrous jaws and bloodshot eyes.
一天凯里斯特忽然间发现自己变成了一只大熊,长着恶魔般的嘴巴和充血的眼睛。
■The idea of this monstrous exposure of her person was so painful to her relations.
一想到她将那么样有伤大雅地抛头露面,家里的人都痛苦不堪。
■Once let the acquisitive instinct burgeon, and there were ruggedly individual forces only too ready to make it come to full and monstrous blossom.
一旦占有的本能滋生,强大的个人力量就会迫不及待地使它开出巨大的花朵。
■Once it has assumed this monstrous guise, it will terrify its brothers and drive them away to Normandy.
一旦有了这个凶暴的伪装,它就会恐吓它的兄弟,把它们赶出诺曼底。
■One monstrous jeep starts up.
一辆怪模怪样的吉普车启动了。
■Look, O LORD, upon my distress: all within me is in ferment, My heart recoils within me from my monstrous rebellion.
上主,求你怜视,因为我实在痛苦:五内恐惧,心如倒悬,因为我常背命顽抗。
■A monstrous big lumber-raft was about a mile up stream, coming along down, with a lantern in the middle of it.
上游一英里路外,正有一排庞然大物似的木筏子漂过来,木排正中间点着一盏灯。
■This is one which his sister overheard one evening and preserved: "I did not think that it was so monstrous.
下面是他妹子在一天晚上听了记下来的一段: “我从前还不知道是那么可怕。
■Unlike the monstrous shapechangers of legend, they can change their shapes at will.
不像那些传说中的变形怪物,狼人可以随心所欲的变形。
■Not of ordinary human form; monstrous.
不是正常人形的;怪物的
■Unwitting pedestrians risk being run over by the fleet of monstrous vehicles constantly rumbling through the streets.
不知情的步行者有被街道上不停飞驰而过的大型车辆撞倒的危险。
■If growth, of whatever kind, were to go on and on, it would eventually become monstrous and destructive.
不论是什么类型的成长,如果成长会永远继续下去,最终成长就会成为一个具有破坏性的怪物。
■Nature was widely believed to be unstable and capricious, with monstrous births from union between species, and spontaneous generation of life.
人们普遍认为自然是不稳定和反复无常的,种间结合产生出畸形怪胎,生命是自然发生的。
■It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about, nowadays, saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.
人们走的是条实在荒谬的道路,如今,说真理与人们背道而驰是绝对完全地无误。
■Man felt the earth trembling, and saw the sky darken with monstrous shapes.
人类感到大地颤抖,看到可怕的怪物遮天。
■A monstrous mutation, once implying freakish severity, was newly seen as simply a flip, a mere deviation from the average variation.
从新的观点来看,曾经意味着严重畸形的怪模怪样的突变,只不过是一次翻转,仅仅是偏离了平均变异而已。
■From conception to publication, the fantasy artist uses his skills to create magical, mythical, and monstrous characters and worlds of wonder.
从概念到实际的出版物,幻想艺术家们应用他们的技巧创作出有魔法的,神秘的怪兽和世界奇观。
■Ever since, he has been struggling with this monstrous disease though he knows all too well that his days are numbered.
从那时起,他一直同这个可怕的病魔作斗争,尽管他非常清楚自己活在世上的日子屈指可数。
■He could not believe that it really was that divine creature whom he saw in the midst of those vile creatures in that monstrous lair.
他不能想象的是,出现在这种丑恶的魔窟里这群邋遢的瘪三当中的竟真会是那个天女似的人儿。
■When his time came to draw there were only three slips left , and it appeared to Chavel a monstrous injustice that there were so few choices left for him.
他从鞋中抽出一张,接着又认定这是同伴的意志强加给他的,一定有十字。于是他把它放回去,另抽了一张。
■They complainthat the monstrous edifices interfere with television reception.
他们抱怨说,那些怪物般的庞大建筑,干扰了电视接收。
■They possess mystical powers that allow them to travel the spirit world, strike with stealth or monstrous force and even call on the forces of the earth itself.
他们拥有的神秘力量使他们可以在精神世界旅行,与鬼祟或者畸形的力量战斗甚至能召唤出土地本身的力量。
■This language turned the tide of the people's feelings, and they began to think how they might best secure the monstrous horse and the favorable auguries connected with it.
他们放火烧了全城,把酒足饭饱正在酣睡的特洛伊人一一杀掉。特洛伊城终于全城陷落了。
■They are tracig a monstrous beat.
他们正在跟踪一庞然大兽。
■They wear hideous clothes to cover their mostly monstrous bodies.
他们穿着丑陋的衣服以便掩盖畸形的身躯。
■The rebating evil, they warned, had grown to such monstrous proportions that it threatened to bankrupt the railroads.
他们警告说,运费折扣的弊端已发展到如此严重的程度,有使铁路公司破产的危险。
■He does return,destroying the building by driving a monstrous vehicle directly into it.
他后来确实回来了--驾着一种巨大的交通工具径直冲进了那座建筑物,将它毁了。
■He was not to do this to her, it was monstrous.
他无权这样对待她,这太恶毒了。
■He could have seen worse: children with monstrous lolling heads and palsied, tiny limbs, adults with gnarled growths erupting from their bellies.
他本可能看到更加不堪:巨大的脑袋、颤抖的细细的四肢的孩子;
■He used to give curious concerts in which mad gypsies tore wild music from little zithers, or grave, yellow-shawled Tunisians plucked at the strained strings of monstrous lutes.
他经常举行古怪的音乐会,让一些疯狂的吉卜赛人在小筝上演奏粗犷的音乐,或是让一些面容庄严,戴黄头巾的突尼斯人拨弄绷紧的琵琶弦。
■Time seemed to him to be crawling with feet of lead, while he by monstrous winds was being swept towards the jagged edge of some black cleft of precipice .
他觉得时间在沉重地向前爬行,而他自己却在被一阵妖风刮向某一黑色断崖的锯齿形边缘上。
■He felt as if it had all been a monstrous dream.
他觉得是做了一些奇怪的梦。
■O monstrous beast, how like a swine he lies!
他躺在那儿多么像一头猪!
■His oily, insinuating tones, his greasy smile, and his monstrous self-conceit grated on my nerves.
他那油腻的,暗暗巴结的腔调,那油滑的笑,那可怕的自负,折磨着我的神经。
■It opened its monstrous jaws in one powerful motion and swallowed Pinocchio completely.
以排山倒海之势张开它奇大无比的双颚,把皮诺奇整个吞下去。
■It seemed difficult to grasp that such men, when last you had seen them, had wielded such monstrous power, that such as they could conquer a great nation and most of Europe.
似乎很难想象,这样的人在我上次看到的时候曾经掌握过那样大的权力,这样的人居然能够征服一个伟大的民族和欧洲大部分。
■Yet these setbacks look inconsequential when set against the monstrous losses reported by bigger banks farther afield.
但是,这些挫折和远方大银行们那些巨额损失相比,实在显得微不足道。
■They discovered Alderaan destroyed by the Imperial superweapon, the Death Star, and were taken captive aboard the monstrous station.
但途中却发现奥德朗已被帝国超级武器“死星”摧毁,而他们的船也被这个巨大的太空站捕获。
■As the daughter of the sun, she is rejected by her father, as Hippolytus is cursed by his own father, who is therefore himself a monstrous figure.
作为太阳的女儿,她被父亲排斥,正如依保列德被他父亲诅咒一样,是荒谬的象徵物。
■Your behaviour in class is monstrous !
你在课堂上的行为真是丢人!
■How dare you impute such monstrous intentions to me?
你怎么敢把这些怪诞的意图归在我身上?
■Have you met some evil spirits? You looked monstrous.
你是不是遇到什么妖怪了,满身的妖气。
■You're the one I look up, not likely to take your words as sth not that important, it's just the strong sense of insecurity makes me monstrous.
你是我仰望的对象,不可能把你的话当做耳旁风,只是强烈的不安全感让我抓狂。
■You've the great American disease, and you've got it "bad" -the appetite, morbid and monstrous, for colour and form, for the pictureque and the romantic at any price.
你有美国人那伟大的通病,而且病得厉害--欲望,病态的畸形的欲望,为了色彩和形式,为了别致和浪漫,不惜一切。
■It's perfectly monstrous that men should be paid more than women for the same job.
做相同的工作,而男人所得报酬比女人多,这完全是难以置信的。
■Lady Clavering likes to be asked for lunch, and is uncommonly kind, and monstrous hospitable.
克拉弗林夫人欢迎人家要她招待午餐,而且她非常和气,也十分好客。