monstrous

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mon·strous /ˈmɒnstrəs $ ˈmɑːn-/ adjectiveadj

1 BAD BEHAVIOUR OR ACTIONSvery wrong, immoral, or unfair 極端錯誤的；道德敗壞的；極不公正的

It’s monstrous to charge that much for a hotel room.

一間賓館客房要收那麽多錢真是太過分了。

Such monstrous injustice is hard to understand.

如此駭人聽聞的枉法不公讓人難以理解。

2 BIGUGLYunusually large 巨大的

a monstrous nose

很大的鼻子

3 unnatural or ugly and frightening 醜陋的；駭人的 SYN hideous

a monstrous shadow on the stairs

樓梯上一個可怕的影子

—monstrously adverbadv

He was ugly and monstrously fat.

他長得醜，而且胖得嚇人。

It was monstrously unfair.

這極不公正。

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monstrous• a monstrous 400-pound grizzly bear• In the dark hours after breakfast it was some way of controlling the monstrous disjuncture between his private and his public life.• In his own colorful expression, he had laid a monstrous egg.• A monstrous form lay on it, covered by sheeting.• a monstrous lie• A monstrous pain crackling along the frozen nerves to leave her dry crying, wordless sobs of abandonment.• Frequently they were outspoken wives, who were considered monstrous shrews or unnatural traitors to their husbands.• The plan called for five dams and reservoirs, all of them of monstrous size.• She throws monstrous tantrums if her parents try to leave her at daycare or with a baby-sitter.• Carr has created a monstrous villain, a female killer of children.

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