Monster
['mɒnstə] or ['mɑnstɚ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) (medicine) a grossly malformed and usually nonviable fetus.
(noun.) an imaginary creature usually having various human and animal parts.
(noun.) a cruel wicked and inhuman person.
校對:谢尔曼--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) Something of unnatural size, shape, or quality; a prodigy; an enormity; a marvel.
(n.) Specifically , an animal or plant departing greatly from the usual type, as by having too many limbs.
(n.) Any thing or person of unnatural or excessive ugliness, deformity, wickedness, or cruelty.
(a.) Monstrous in size.
(v. t.) To make monstrous.
手打:苏珊
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Prodigy, monstrosity, moon-calf, unnatural production.[2]. Ruffian, wretch, miscreant, villain, demon.
整理:罗威娜
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Prodigy, portent, marvel, deformity, abnormity, fright, colossus, monstrosity,leviathan, fiend, brute
ANT:Beauty, Venus, Adonis, Narcissus, gem, pet, jewel, angel, augury, harbinger
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解釋/意思:
n. anything out of the usual course of nature: a prodigy or fabulous animal: anything unusually large: anything horrible from ugliness or wickedness.—adj. unusually large huge.—n. Monstros′ity an unnatural production.—adj. Mon′strous out of the common course of nature: enormous: wonderful: horrible.—adv. Mon′strously.—n. Mon′strousness state or quality of being monstrous.—Gila monster a large poisonous lizard of Arizona &c. having tubercular scales.
卡尔顿手打
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To dream of being pursued by a monster, denotes that sorrow and misfortune hold prominent places in your immediate future. To slay a monster, denotes that you will successfully cope with enemies and rise to eminent positions.
整理:李奥娜
例句/造句/用法:
- The boat now began, with heavy groans, like some vast, tired monster, to prepare to push up among the multiplied steamers at the levee. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- And Birkin seemed to her almost a monster of hateful arrogance. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Thompson_ DEEP SEA MONSTER CAPTURED OFF FLORIDA So far as the scientific world is concerned, this is the only fish of its kind ever captured. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- To England, then, I conveyed her; a fearful voyage I had with such a monster in the vessel. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Never, never, you monster! 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- I had been the author of unalterable evils; and I lived in daily fear, lest the monster whom I had created should perpetrate some new wickedness. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- Not that she would encourage him in the least--the poor uncouth monster--of course not. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Before I could recover myself, this monster in human form shouted out furiously, Miss Jane Ann Stamper be----! 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- It could lynch one as a moral monster, when as a matter of fact his ideals were commonplace; it could proclaim one a great benefactor when in truth he was a rather dull old gentleman. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Monster, away! 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Does any one suppose that I would have taken such a monster as you by any other name? 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- The drops which lashed her face were not scorpions, but prosy rain; Egdon in the mass was no monster whatever, but impersonal open ground. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- The eyes of that monster of wickedness moistened while he was speaking to me--they did, Walter! 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Such a monster has then really existence; I cannot doubt it; yet I am lost in surprise and admiration. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- In recent great battleships four turrets are used, each carrying three of these great guns, giving a broadside of twelve of these monster weapons of war. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The fighting strength and efficiency of this horde of ferocious green monsters was equivalent to ten times their number of red men. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- But if you would see the very heart and home of cripples and human monsters, both, go straight to Constantinople. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- As I turned my eyes in the direction the girl indicated, I saw a dozen of the great white monsters running across the valley toward the river bank. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- We are neither temptresses, nor terrors, nor monsters. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- Are kings such monsters that a wish like that must be reckoned a royal virtue? 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- He includes monsters and varieties, not from their partial resemblance to the parent-form, but because they are descended from it. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- All the devouring and insatiate Monsters imagined since imagination could record itself, are fused in the one realisation, Guillotine. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- He had as a boy been haunted by the fear of monsters and witches in which the credulous of all classes then believed. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- They are most treacherous monsters, and when least expected break out in full fury. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- These monsters failed creatively to develop, so God, the creative mystery, dispensed with them. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- I can but die, and God, I hope, will have mercy on me, very soon after our separation, if ever it should be found necessary; but we are not monsters! 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- They are quite different from your uncle's tenants or Sir James's--monsters--farmers without landlords--one can't tell how to class them. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Whereupon seven monsters, like himself, came towards him with reaping-hooks in their hands, each hook about the largeness of six scythes. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
錄入:玛丽埃塔