monoliths

/ˈmɑː.nə.lɪθ/

名词

  • (通常非常高的)巨大建筑

  • (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。

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