英 [ˈedɪfɪs] 美 [ˈedɪfɪs]
n. 大厦；大建筑物
复数edifices
edifice /ˈɛdɪfɪs/ TEM8
可数名词 An edifice is a large and impressive building. 大厦
The taxi driver reeled off a list of historic edifices they must not fail to visit.
出租车司机一口气说出了一串他们不应错过参观的历史建筑。
a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place
it was an imposing edifice
同义词： building
... edible(形)可食的、食用的 edifice(名)大厦；雄伟建筑物 editorial(名)社论 ...
... sacred 神圣的 edifice 宏伟的建筑（宫殿、教室），大厦 posthumous 死后的 ...
厦门EDIFICE(金属系列),厦门报价_行情_参数_评测,厦门鹭虎商城...
edification 启迪；教诲；精神修养
大厦；大建筑物
Their new manifesto hardly threatens to bring the whole edifice of capitalism crashing down.
他们新的宣言声称要摧毁整个资本主义大厦，这是不可能的。
A group of men are erecting a monstrous copper edifice.
一群人正在建造一座巨大的铜色建筑。
All were detained in the Salem Gaol, a grim edifice of granite blocks, iron-barred windows and brick-walled cells.
所有人都被拘禁在萨勒姆监狱中，这是一座用花岗岩砌成、装有铁栅栏窗户和砖墙砌成的牢房构成的可怕建筑。
It was a question of constructing an elaborate formal edifice to which everybody could contribute. Students got excited about it.
现在的精读已形成了一种精确而正式的体系,每个人都可以做出自己的贡献，学生当然会对此感兴趣。
文学理论导论课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课
So thermodynamics, based on these four laws now, requires an edifice, and it's a very mature science, and it requires that we define things carefully.
热力学是一座，建立在这四条定律上的大厦,它是一门非常成熟的科学，也要求我们在定义东西时非常小心。
热力学与动力学课程节选 : 麻省理工公开课
It's pretty remarkable that the whole edifice is set up by just one person.
值得注意的是,整个物理大厦,是由一个人搭建起来的
基础物理课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课
CRU's importance has always lain in the foundations it puts under the edifice of climate science.
Thus for decades, I gazed at the vast and somber edifice of the Soviet Union.
Clinton called the United States "uniquely well-positioned" to help construct that metaphorical global edifice.