英语单词 | monolith |
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英美音标 | 英 ['mɒnəlɪθ] 美 ['mɑːnəlɪθ] |
中文释义 | n.巨型独石;整块石料;庞然大物 |
英语例句 | (1) It required to bring more advanced Monolith systems back online. |
中文例句 | (1) 需要把比较高阶巨型独石系统带来回来在线。 |
vocabulary简明 | When something is really huge, like a giant stone, building, or company, call it a monolith. You can also use it to describe a huge amount of work, like the monolith that is your 40-page term paper. |
vocabulary扩展 | The noun monolith comes from the Greek words monos, meaning “single” and lithos, meaning “stone.” Any large structures, like a factory that could cover many football fields in size, can be called a monolith. So can monuments that have little definition, like Stonehenge. Even companies that seem to be everywhere, their products and neon-signed restaurants covering the globe, can be called monoliths. |
柯林斯解释 | 1 [N-COUNT 可数名词](尤指古代竖立的)单块巨石,独石柱 A monolith is a very large, upright piece of stone, especially one that was put in place in ancient times. 2 [N-COUNT 可数名词]庞大而僵化的组织;单一庞大的体系 If you refer to an organization or system as a monolith, you are critical of it because it is very large and very slow to change, and it does not seem to have different parts with different characters. [disapproval]
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