edifice complex
名词 n.
英文释义
名词 n.
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The desire to construct or own spectacularly imposing buildings.
— There may be fewer dictators these days, he says, but instead local authorities run by city politicians “want to follow in the footsteps of mad King Ludwig of Bavaria and indulge their edifice complexes”.
词形变化
词源
From the psychoanalytical sense of complex, and a pun on Oedipus complex.
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