edifice [ˈɛdəfɪs]

例句:

• Their new manifesto hardly threatens to bring the whole edifice of capitalism crashing down.
  他们新的宣言声称要摧毁整个资本主义大厦，这是不可能的。
  
• The American consulate was a magnificent edifice in the centre of Bordeaux.
  美国领事馆是位于波尔多市中心的一座宏伟的大厦。
  
• He surveyed the edifice from the outside and admired greatly.
  他从外边打量着大厦,对它赞美备至.
  
• The outside of the edifice was encrusted with marble.
  来自Gibbon
• Opinion Brick by brick, edifice by edifice.
  来自THETIMES
• One logical slip and an entire scientific edifice comes tumbling down.
  来自R. M. Pirsig