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Monolith Stone Meaning Large Called N Count 可数名词 英

英语单词 monolith
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
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[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.
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    [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]
    • A deal between the two powerful institutions would have created a banking monolith.

      若是这两个强大机构之间达成交易,就会产生一个金融业的巨无霸。

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