monolith
/ˈmɑː.nə.lɪθ/
名词
（古人竖立的）独块巨石，独石柱
（不愿意改变，也不关心个体的）权力庞大的巨型机构
He said that the National Health Service had become a vast bureaucratic monolith.
他说国民保健系统已经变成了一个权力规模巨大的官僚机构。
（无差别的）单一群体
The study documented the diverse backgrounds of the Latino population, which is often viewed wrongly by outsiders as an ethnic monolith.
这项研究记录了拉美裔人口的不同背景，外人常常错误地将所有拉美人视为一个单一的种族群体。