monolith
柯林斯詞典
1. N-COUNT A monolith is a very large, upright piece of stone, especially one that was put in place in ancient times. (尤指先古時期豎立的)獨塊巨石
2. N-COUNT If you refer to an organization or system as a monolith, you are critical of it because it is very large and very slow to change, and it does not seem to have different parts with different characters. 龐大而僵化的組織; 單一龐大的體系[表不滿]
A deal between the two powerful institutions would have created a banking monolith. 若當(dāng)時這兩個強大機構(gòu)之間達成了交易，就會帶來一個銀行業(yè)的巨無霸。
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monolith /?m?n?l?θ/ (monoliths)
劍橋詞典
monolith noun [C] (STONE)
a large block of stone standing by itself that was put up by people in ancient times
（古人豎立的）獨塊巨石，獨石柱
monolith noun [C] (BUILDING)
a very large building , often one that is very tall
（通常非常高的）巨大建筑
monolith noun [C] (ORGANIZATION)
a large , powerful organization that is not willing to change and that does not seem interested in individual people
（不愿意改變，也不關(guān)心個體的）權(quán)力龐大的巨型機構(gòu)
He said that the National Health Service had become a vast bureaucratic monolith. 他說國民保健系統(tǒng)已經(jīng)變成了一個權(quán)力規(guī)模巨大的官僚機構(gòu)。 返回 monolith