English Dictionary

Frankenstein's monster

名詞

A thing that is cobbled together from parts of other things. / A creation that overpowers or slips out of the control of its creator, often proceeding to turn on its creator or harm others.

日本語の意味

他のものの部分から組み合わせて作られたもの / 創造主の制御を逸脱し、創造主に対して反抗したり、他者に危害を加えたりする存在

The startup's new platform was criticized as a Frankenstein's monster of incompatible modules that barely worked together.

そのスタートアップの新しいプラットフォームは、互換性のないモジュールを寄せ集めて作られた代物だとして批判された。

意味（1）

A thing that is cobbled together from parts of other things.

Like the English language, the eukaryote cell is a chimera, a Frankenstein's monster, assembled from bits and pieces of genetic information...

意味（2）

A creation that overpowers or slips out of the control of its creator, often proceeding to turn on its creator or harm others.

They created a Frankenstein's monster which they did not imagine could grow out of their control.

Frankenstein's monsters （ plural ）