| 单词 | compendium |
| 释义 | Related topics: Newspapers, printing, publishing, Board gamescom·pen·di·um /kəmˈpendiəm/ noun (plural compendiums or compendia /-diə/) [countable] 1 TCN formal a book that contains a complete collection of facts, drawings etc on a particular subject 手册，大全〔关于某一主题的详尽资料、图解等〕 a cricketing compendium 板球运动手册2. British EnglishDGB a set of different board games in a box 〔装在一个盒子里的〕棋盘游戏集合Examples from the Corpuscompendium• Wolfgang Tillmans is exhibiting a compendium of 57 images, with yet more in display cabinets in the centre of the room.• The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language is a compendium of useful information about language, including language in literature.• Ovid is a compendium of mythology.• a baseball compendium• The main points of Mary Kingsley's remarkable story have appeared in compendiums on Victorian women travellers.• Mostly, however, what we find in this new compendium is more.• It is a 318-page compendium of stock liberal positions and personal anecdotes bound by a thick strand of moral conservatism.• A great scholarly compendium of folklore and legends.• Anyway, these compendiums try to be all things to all people.Origin compendium (1500-1600) Medieval Latin Latin compendere “to weigh together”, from com- ( → COM-) + pendere “to weigh”com·pen·di·um nounChineseSyllable facts, complete drawings that Corpus a of collection contains book a |
| 随便看 |
|
英汉双解词典包含236457条英汉翻译词条，涵盖了常用英语单词及词组短语的翻译及用法，是英语学习的必备工具。