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Please simplify it!
a concrete abomination masquerading as a hote

this is an example from oxford dic, I can't get it.
Dec 16, 2016 11:02 AM
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Was it a hotel? It is just a funny way to say that the hotel is disgusting. Concrete is a kind of construction material here. So it is a disgusting thing made of concrete pretending to be a hotel, or disguised into a hotel.
December 16, 2016
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It's really a hotel.

The writer thinks the architecture is ugly. The hotel is made of concrete. An "abomination" is something very disgusting. He thinks the hotel building is "a concrete abomination." 

A masquerade is a literally a masked ball, a dance in people meet and dance with each other without knowing who they are. Figuratively, a masquerade means something pretending to be something else.

A hotel means a place that provides rooms for travelers. If this ugly building provides rooms for travelers, it's a hotel. It's just an ugly hotel.

The writer pretends that the word "hotel" means "a beautiful, elegant, and gracious building that provides rooms for travelers." According to the writer, this building is so ugly that it is not "really" a hotel. It is "really" a concrete abomination, wearing a false mask as "a hotel."

December 16, 2016