an imposing edifice
一座宏伟的建筑
The whole edifice of the Inca empire crumbled in a surprisingly short time.
整个印加帝国的大厦土崩瓦解，时间短得惊人。
an edifice of lies
谎话连篇
1.大建筑物,大厦
2.(知识的)体系,结构
1.a large impressive building
2.a complicated system or policy
1.Entrenched in the dark side, Vader marched to the temple with a column of loyal clone troopers, gutting the sacred edifice from within.
深陷黑暗面的维德带着一队忠诚的克隆人士兵向圣殿进军，从内部血洗这座神圣的建筑。
2.That this half-billion-dollar edifice is a good 40-minute drive from a city of any size is part of the plan.
这座造价为5亿美元的大厦距离周边的所有城市足足有40分钟的车程，这一点正是计划的一部分。
3.The atrium, which had a columned portico all around, extended under all the medieval edifice and had at its centre a cistern.
这个中庭，有圆柱环绕的门廊，延伸到中古世纪风的大楼之下，在中间有一个水池。
4.Einstein's edifice is constructed on an experimental fact: that the velocity of light is independent of your own motion.
爱因斯坦的理论大厦基于这样一个实验事实：即光速与你自身的运动速度无关。
5.It was a question of constructing an elaborate formal edifice to which everybody could contribute. Students got excited about it.
现在的精读已形成了一种精确而正式的体系，每个人都可以做出自己的贡献，学生当然会对此感兴趣。
6.The spaciousness and gloom of this vast edifice produce a profound and mysterious awe.
这座大寺空旷幽暗，使人产生深沉而神秘的敬畏之念。
7.The digital one, an edifice built of software, takes in all that information and automatically acts on it.
由软件建造的庞大的数字世界则接受所有这些信息并自动采取行动。
8.Even if every one of his doctrines were mistaken, the Summa would remain an imposing intellectual edifice.
即使他的每一个学说都是错误的，《辑要》这书仍将不失为知识上的一座宏伟的大厦。
9.Germany's most pressing European business is to sort out the euro, the foundation on which the European edifice now rests.
在欧洲事务中，德国最紧迫的问题是解决欧元危机，欧元是现在庞大的欧洲赖以存在的基础。
10.The great edifice of royalty is now mostly a show, a soap, a family saga: "The Archers" with more believable characters, and better jokes.
宏伟的皇室现在大多数是一场秀、肥皂剧和家族传奇：“弓箭手”有很多令人信服的特征和一些好笑的笑话。