The erection of the building took several months. 建造这座建筑物花了好几个月时间。
She calls the new opera house "that hideous erection". 她把新歌剧院叫作 “那讨厌的庞然大物”。
She calls the new opera house that hideous erection'. 她把新歌剧院称作`那讨厌的庞然大物'.
erection
[ noun ]
an erect penis
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a structure that has been erected
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the act of building or putting up
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Erection \E*rec"tion\, n. [L. erectio: cf. F. ['e]rection.] 1. The act of erecting, or raising upright; the act of constructing, as a building or a wall, or of fitting together the parts of, as a machine; the act of founding or establishing, as a commonwealth or an office; also, the act of rousing to excitement or courage.
2. The state of being erected, lifted up, built, established, or founded; exaltation of feelings or purposes.
Her peerless height my mind to high erection draws up. --Sidney
3. State of being stretched to stiffness; tension.
4. Anything erected; a building of any kind.
5. (Physiol.) The state of a body part which, from having been soft, has become hard and swollen by the accumulation of blood in the erectile tissue; -- used especially of the penis; as, to get or have an erection. [1913 Webster +PJC]
"Even if you increase the faucet flow, if you don't close the drain, you won't get an erection."
The bill still has to go through three other committees _ including one where the erection of a formidable roadblock is anticipated later this month _ before a final vote by the full House.
But the poll also showed that Hispanics split 52-44 percent when asked if they supported erection of secure fences and barriers to thwart illegal border crossings.
McCune aided the erection of the menorah Tuesday by reducing a $5,000 bond that Chabad would have been required to post to cover some potential court costs incurred by the city.
When taking a medical history, most doctors don't ask their patients whether they have erection difficulties, notes Paul C. Rousseau, a geriatrician at the VA Medical Center in Murfreesboro, Tenn.
The nerve signals needed to start erection can be interrupted by many things, among them injury, disease or radical prostate surgery.
In one room, a neon hanged man shocks the out-of-towners by dying with an erection.
It is the first involuntary use of Army retirees since the 1961 crisis over East Germany's erection of the Berlin Wall.
An erection, Goldstein said, is essentially a function of hydraulics.