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An edifice is a building, especially a large, solid, impressive one — a palace, a parliament, a cathedral, a courthouse. You would not call a shed an edifice. The word is formal; in speech people usually just say building. Writers also stretch it: a whole system of ideas, laws, or lies can be an edifice, meaning it was built up piece by piece and looks solid — until someone knocks a hole in it. That second use is common in newspapers and essays. Same Latin 'build' as , which is why both words feel grand and a little old.
大廈、宏偉建築；也指一套龐大的思想或制度
組成From Middle English and Old French edifice, a borrowing of Latin aedificium, 'a building', from aedificāre, 'to build, to establish' — the same verb behind English edify.
同家族的字
- edifysame Latin aedificāre, 'to build', later used of the mind
- edificationthe noun for that 'building up' of mind or character
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
edificenoun/ˈɛd.ɪ.fɪs/
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A building; a structure; an architectural fabric, especially a large and spectacular one.
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An abstract structure, such as a school of thought, an argument, a theoretical position, etc.
- The real difficulty was moral, not intellectual. Was the whole edifice of Ptolemy to be destroyed?
- With a great thump on the table, Poirot demolished his carefully built up edifice.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。