“For what, Xury” said I. “Me cut off his head” said he. However Xury could not cut off his head, but he cut off a foot and brought it with him, and it was a monstrous great one.

“干什么,佐立?”我问。“我要把它的头砍下来!”他说。结果,佐立没法把狮子头砍下来,却砍下了一只脚带回来。那脚可真大得可怕!

“Sometimes,” said he, “in my voyages, when I was a man and commanded other men, I have seen the heavens overcast, the sea rage and foam, the storm arise, and, like a monstrous bird, beating the two horizons with its wings

“有时候，”在心里说，“在我远航的时候，当我自由自在，身强力壮，指挥着别人的时候，我也曾见过天空突然布满了阴云暴怒地吐着白沫，波涛翻滚，天空中象有一只大怪鸟遮天蔽日而来。

Not of ordinary human form;monstrous .

不是正常人形的;怪物的

It is a monstrous absurdity to call a man like him a hero.

称他这样一个人叫英雄，真是咄咄怪事。

But when the occasion presented itself, there was suddenly seen to emerge from all this shadow, as from an ambuscade, a narrow and angular forehead, a baleful glance, a threatening chin, enormous hands, and a monstrous cudgel

但在时机到了的时候，他那筋骨暴露的扁额，阴气扑人的眼睛，骇人的下巴，粗大的手，怪模怪样的短棍，都突然从黑影里象伏兵那样全部出现了。

What a monstrous lie!

多么可怕的谎言!

There was no excess too monstrous for them to commit

多么令人感到可怕的事他们都能干出来

During the disaster age about 2000 years ago, the earth was stricken by severe cold, terrible quakes ’and monstrous floods, which brewed wars and massive migrations. Numerous peoples from south China migrated southward to become part of Siamese, Malays, Philippines, Indonesians and Papuans.

公元2000年前的夏禹宇宙期，地球上灾害频仍，严寒、地震、洪水接踵而至，酿成战祸，诱发大规模移民。华南的百越三苗被迫南移，成为暹罗人、马来人、菲律宾人、印尼人和巴布亚人的祖先。

The modern city consists of monstrous edifices and of dark, narrow streets full of petrol fumes, coal dust, and toxic gases, torn by the noise of the taxicabs, lorries and buses, and thronged ceaselessly by great crowds.

构成现代城市的是一些畸形建筑群和阴暗而又狭窄的街道,街上充满汽油味、煤尘和有毒气体,夹杂着出租汽车、大卡车和公共汽车的喧闹声和熙熙攘攘的人群。

a monstrous fetus

怪胎.

The quality or character of being monstrous .

怪异的特点或性质

I thus give the reader some slight abstraction of my Oriental dreams, which always filled me with such amazement at the monstrous scenery, that horror seemed absorbed, for a while, in sheer astonishment

关于我的东方梦，我就这样地给读者以细微的抽象概念，这些梦总是使我对那种恐怖景色是那样惊讶，恐惧似乎暂时化作了吃惊。

A monstrous offense or evil; an outrage.

骇人听闻的罪恶行径;暴行

a monstrous proposal

荒谬的建议.

The Women Live in the Monstrous Life-Reading the Novel Beloved of Toni Morrison

畸形生活下的女性-评莫里森的小说《宠儿》

The next moment a hideous, grinding speech, as of some monstrous machine running without oil, burst from the big telescreen at the end of the room

接下来，房间尽头的大电幕突然发出一阵可怕的吱吱尖啸，活像什么机器怪物不加油生转。

She was thinking that she must reprimand her daily maid the next morning for such a monstrous piece of negligence

她心想明天上午一定要好好训斥那个干家务的帮手，她竟如此疏忽大意。

War with all our might and with all the strength God has given us, and to wage war against a monstrous tyranny never surpassed in the dark and lamentable catalogue of human crime

尽我们的全力，尽上帝赋予我们的全部力量去作战，对人类黑暗、可悲的罪恶史上空前凶残的暴政作战。

a monstrous tiger

巨虎.

a monstrous sum

巨款.

--the gigantic bellows, the monstrous extinguishers, the superhuman fans

巨人似的口风，奇形怪状的熄烛帽，超人用的扇子。

To see a woman of the town spit in the mayor’s face was a thing so monstrous that, in his most daring flights of fancy, he would have regarded it as a sacrilege to believe it possible

看见一个公娼唾市长的面，这种事在他的想象中确是已经荒谬到了无法想象的地步，即使只偶起一念，认为那是可能发生的事，那已可算是犯了大不敬的罪。

Terrible, formless shapes, vague figures, gigantic, monstrous , distorted, whirled at a gallop through his imagination

可怕而不成形的影子，依稀模糊的形象，庞大、狰狞、奇形怪状，在他的想象里野马似的直打转。

Lady Clavering likes to be asked for lunch, and is uncommonly kind, and monstrous hospitable

克拉弗林夫人欢迎人家要她招待午餐，而且她非常和气，也十分好客。

A common theme in horror stories is of a monstrous creature raised by supernatural power from the dead.

恐怖故事中的一个共同主题是关于一个由超自然的力量使之从死亡中复活过来的怪物。

Two monstrous women with brick-red forearms folded across their aprons were talking outside a doorway

两个女人长得高高大大，赤红的胳膊交叉在胸前，掩住身上的围裙，站在一家门口聊大天。

Martin had intended to reply, but he was struck by the hopelessness of it. He gazed across the monstrous sordidness of soul to a chromo on the wall.It surprised him

马丁想反驳，可再一想，反驳也没有用，便越过那灵魂的严重丑恶去看墙上那幅五彩石印画，那画让他大吃了一惊。

The tree planted by the magician quickly grew to a monstrous height.

魔术师种下的树很快就长得极其高大。

The excursion had in his eyes been a monstrous gaffe,a breach of sensibility and good taste(Mary McCarthy)

那次谈话中的离题在他看来太出丑了，简直就是失去理智后的胡言乱语，毫无高尚趣味可言(玛丽·麦卡锡)

It had no caption, and represented simply the monstrous figure of a Eurasian soldier, three or four metres high, striding forward with expressionless Mongolian face and enormous boots, a submachine gun pointed from his hip

那海报没有文字说明，只画了个顶天立地的欧亚国士兵，足有三四米高，踩着大军靴子往前走，腰间挎着轻机枪，蒙古脸冷漠没表情。

monstrous crime

暴行 ,恐怖的罪行,弥天大罪,罪恶重大