Monstrous
['mɒnstrəs] or ['mɑnstrəs]
解释:
(a.) Marvelous; strange.
(a.) Having the qualities of a monster; deviating greatly from the natural form or character; abnormal; as, a monstrous birth.
(a.) Extraordinary in a way to excite wonder, dislike, apprehension, etc.; -- said of size, appearance, color, sound, etc.; as, a monstrous height; a monstrous ox; a monstrous story.
(a.) Extraordinary on account of ugliness, viciousness, or wickedness; hateful; horrible; dreadful.
(a.) Abounding in monsters.
(adv.) Exceedingly; very; very much.
编辑:娜塔莎
同义词及近义词：
a. [1]. Unnatural, preternatural, abnormal, prodigious.[2]. Huge, enormous, immense, vast, colossal, stupendous, extraordinary, Cyclopean, Herculean.
录入:凯思琳
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Prodigious, portentous, marvellous, deformed, abnormal, hideous, preposterous,intolerable
ANT:Ordinary, familiar, unnoticeable, fair, comely, shapely, regular, natural,reasonable, just
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例句:
- I say that these monstrous laws of yours will bring a curse upon the land--God will not let such wickedness endure. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- Here Darwin observed crabs of monstrous size, with a structure which ena bled them to open the cocoanuts. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- Monstrous nice girl, 'pon my honour, though, Osborne, he was good enough to add. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- An undue love of Self leads to the most monstrous crimes and occasions the greatest misfortunes both in States and Families. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- The glyptodon was a monstrous South American armadillo, and a human skeleton has been found by Roth buried beneath its huge tortoise-like shell. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- That is the monstrous proposition which you are driven to assert, if you attempt to associate the disappearance of the Moonstone with Franklin Blake. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- In short, not altogether liking the words my dear, as they had been applied to me by her husband, she thought it monstrous vulgar! 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- At this, the charity-boy looked monstrous fierce; and said that Oliver would want one before long, if he cut jokes with his superiors in that way. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- Poor bewildered statesmen, unused to any notion of change, have seen the national life grow to a monstrous confusion and sprout monstrous evils by the way. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- Catastrophes are disastrous to radical and conservative alike: they do not preserve what was worth maintaining; they allow a deformed and often monstrous perversion of the original plan. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- And of the monstrous ineffectiveness of the Roman voting system we have already written. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- And you are monstrous top-heavy! 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- Yours is the monstrous pride which counterfeits humility. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- Monstrous delusions! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- She was face to face with a monstrous difficulty, and she resolved to get free of it by postponement. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- Readers, can you conceive anything half so monstrous, half so ruinous to black-pudding men, so destructive to the rising generation? 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- Good gracious-- Mr. Welland gasped, as if a second reading had been necessary to bring the monstrous absurdity of the thing home to him. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
- I am monstrous glad of it. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
- We cannot wait in politics for any completed theoretical discussion of its method: it is a monstrous demand. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- An impressive silence broods over the monstrous structure where such multitudes of men and women were wont to assemble in other days. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- Very few people have a grip like Gabriel--the prints of his monstrous fingers, two inches deep, are to be seen in that rock to-day. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- No: such a martyrdom would be monstrous. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- They run from the absurd to the monstrous. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- Lucy is monstrous pretty, and so good humoured and agreeable! 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
- It is monstrous--as if you had had a vision of Hades in your childhood, like the boy in the legend. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- Tammany is not a freak, a strange and monstrous excrescence. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- It's quite monstrous that she should forget herself and her station in that way. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- One reads in vain through the monstrous accumulations of Napoleonic literature for a single record of self-forgetfulness. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- I turned again in time to see the gate of a nearby cage thrown open and three monstrous white apes spring into the arena. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
- I would not brawl in the presence of death, but I can assure you that if I were a younger man your monstrous conduct would not pass with impunity. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
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