1. 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。
2. A group of men are erecting a monstrous copper edifice. 一群人正在建造一座巨大的铜色建筑。
3. All were detained in the Salem Gaol, a grim edifice of granite blocks, iron-barred windows and brick-walled cells. 所有人都被拘禁在萨勒姆监狱中,这是一座用花岗岩砌成、装有铁栅栏窗户和砖墙砌成的牢房构成的可怕建筑。
4. Evidence such as this serves to undermine the apparently monolithic edifice of Victorianism. 这样的证据破坏了维多利亚时代看似单一的建筑。