"column consisting of a single large block of stone," 1848, from French monolithe (16c.), from Latin monolithus (adj.) "consisting of a single stone," from Greek monolithos "made of one stone," from monos "single, alone" (see mono-) + lithos "stone." Transferred and figurative use is from 1934.
雙語例句
1. A deal between the two powerful institutions would have created a banking monolith.
若是這兩個強大機構之間達成交易，就會產生一個金融業的巨無霸。
來自柯林斯例句
2. The monolith, he suggested, was doomed by the tides of history.
他指出, 鐵板一塊的觀念是注定要被歷史的潮流所淹沒的.
來自辭典例句
3. The imposing monolith of totalitarian states often obscures their latent weaknesses.
極權國家外表堂堂的鐵板一塊掩蓋了它們內在的虛弱.
來自辭典例句
4. The monolith will gradually be destroyed by these pellets and break down.
這些小碎片就會逐漸破壞里面的塑膠制品,直至最后使其徹底報廢.
來自互聯網
5. The kind of waiting, of a monolith, that wears out time.