superstruction

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superstructions 复数 superstructions

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The act of superstructing, or building upon.

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  2. 2.

    That which is built on some foundation; an edifice; a superstructure.

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    1668, John Denham, Preface to the translation of two poems, in Poems and Translations, 6th edition, London: Jacob Tonson, 1719, p. 89, […] for I love not to improve the Honour of the Living, by impairing that of the Dead; and my own Profession hath taught me, not to erect new Superstructions upon an old Ruin.