词汇 | monster |
释义 | monster noun[ C ] uk /ˈmɒn.stər/ us /ˈmɑːn.stɚ/ monsternoun[C] (CREATURE)B1 any imaginary frightening creature, especially one that is large and strange: (虚构的)怪物,怪兽 a sea monster海怪 prehistoric monsters史前怪兽 the Loch Ness monster尼斯湖水怪 The monster roared and gnashed its teeth.那怪兽咆哮着,将牙磨得咯咯直响。 The Incredible Hulk is a character in a comic who turns from a scientist into a two-metre tall monster.那个“不可思议的巨人”是连环漫画中的一个人物,他从一位科学家变成了一个两米高的怪物。 The movie was about a huge green monster. He thinks there are monsters under his bed. Strange, suspicious and unnatural things and people alien anomaly anti-alien Bermuda Triangle corn circle flake grotesque kook kryptonite loiterer Martian perviness quirk screwball sicko sociopath sociopathic spaceman weirdo whack job monsternoun[C] (PERSON)C2 a cruel person: 丧失人性的人;残忍的人,恶人 You'd have to be a monster to hit a child like that.你一定是丧失人性了,那样打一个孩子。 Unkind, cruel & unfeeling acerbic acerbically acerbity acidly anti-cruelty cold-heartedly cruel cruelly cruelty cruelty to someone/something meanly meanness mental cruelty merciless mercilessly trenchancy trenchant trenchantly uncharitable uncharitably monsternoun[C] (LARGE)informal something that is very big, or too big: 庞然大物 You should have seen the onions he grew for the competition - they were monsters!你应该看看他为参加这次比赛种的洋葱,它们都大得离奇! Enormous astronomical astronomically behemoth bigly by far and awayidiom immeasurable immeasurably immense immensity inordinate precipitous prodigiously stratospheric stratospherically super-colossal supersized walloping winding yawning yawningly monster adjective[ before noun ] informaluk /ˈmɒn.stər/ us /ˈmɑːn.stɚ/ very big: 巨型的 a monster housing development巨型新建住宅区 Enormous astronomical astronomically behemoth bigly by far and awayidiom immeasurable immeasurably immense immensity inordinate precipitous prodigiously stratospheric stratospherically super-colossal supersized walloping winding yawning yawningly monster verb[ T ] UKinformaluk /ˈmɒn.stər/ us /ˈmɑːn.stɚ/ to criticize someone severely or to treat someone very badly: 严厉批评 Andy Smith has been monstered by the media.安迪•史密斯受到媒体的猛烈抨击。 Disapproving & criticizing anathematize animadversion aspersion aw backbite barrel bash belabour disapprobation knock knocker let someone have both barrelsidiom low blow mordacious mordancy pile poorly slam there you goidiom union-basher monster | American Dictionarymonster noun[ C ] us/ˈmɑn·stər/ monsternoun[C] (CREATURE)any imaginary frightening creature, esp. one that is large and strange monsternoun[C] (EVIL PERSON)a person who does very cruel and evil acts: To the whole world, he was a monster. monster adjective[ not gradable ] us/ˈmɑn·stər/ monsteradjective[not gradable] (BIG)very big, or too big: a monster shark Examples of monstermonster Of course, monsters can be upbeat too, as other countless cases of supermen testify. Transgressive terms for monsters and occult demiurges are another area in which the register is frankly an effort to come to grips with radical alterity. Since cupids had to dance to the monster's music, and shepherds to that of the satyrs, the music needed to be kept fairly neutral. We are becoming aware that we live in a world of hybrid things, or monsters, that do not belong to either realm. Making monsters is an ideological working-through of this dissenting identity. Such children, it is feared, grow up to become uncivilised little monsters and may pose a threat to other children as well as to their communities. Humans look outward at this and other death-associated monsters from a position of life, much as they look outward at rivers or ethnonymic others in geographic space. A note on the epidemiology of acardiac monsters. One problem with multi-author volumes of this sort is that they become monsters to organize and complete, and it's obvious that the contributions are of various vintages. She gives the example of an office and asks the readers how their offices operate - with monsters of prudence all around or also with some love, including trust and friendship. The monsters, as prompt note 26 indicates, enter from the wings. Intrigued, she fashions an artificial replacement for the throat of the deceased enemy and teaches herself to use it so as to reproduce the monster's lament. If we take the example of relativisyntactic monsters are not ex nihilo creations, zation strategies, it is very difficult to draw coming out of the blue. Scandalous monsters of nature/culture - such as holes of ozone, depredated tropical rain forests, endangered animal and plant species, and tailored human genes - would there have place and voice. Ghosts, it seems, cannot thrive without battening on what we already know, or imagine we once knew: they are not quite monsters, nor are they quite familiar. See all examples of monster These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Collocations withmonstermonsterThese are words often used in combination with monster. Click on a collocation to see more examples of it. giant monster Suddenly, an enormous flying object arrives on the scene and removes the giant monster. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. little monster What a littlemonster of a local authority we have created when viewed in the light of any independent constitutional position! From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 monster truck He has been trying to find a racing series that meets his vision of professional monstertruck racing. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. See all collocations with monster |
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