0 any imaginary frightening creature, especially one that is large and strange -- （虚构的）怪物，怪兽
a sea monster 海怪
prehistoric monsters 史前怪兽
the Loch Ness monster 尼斯湖水怪
2 something that is very big, or too big -- 庞然大物
You should have seen the onions he grew for the competition - they were monsters! 你应该看看他为参加这次比赛种的洋葱，它们都大得离奇！
3 very big -- 巨型的
a monster housing development 巨型新建住宅区
4 to criticize someone severely or to treat someone very badly -- 严厉批评
Andy Smith has been monstered by the media. 安迪•史密斯受到媒体的猛烈抨击。
The Incredible Hulk is a character in a comic who turns from a scientist into a two-metre tall monster.
The monsters he encounters on his quest are not actual, but oversized creations of an imagination that threatens to slip from manly control.
Because monsters are always the constitutive outside of normativity, the scapegoats constructed of society's devouring anxieties, they can never safely be tucked away.
The dream of reason and its "transcendental ego" appeared to have joined with alltoo-human empirical egos to engender monsters on all sides.
In the process of instructing the world, they developed a political culture that nourishes both liberal dreams and illiberal monsters.
