| 词汇 | compendium |
| 释义 | compendiumWord family adjectivecompendiousadverbcompendiouslynouncompendiumcompendiousness Newspapers, printing, publishing, Board games com·pen·di·um /kəmˈpendiəm/ noun (plural compendiums or compendia /-diə/) [countableC] 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 EnglishBrEDGB 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 Corpus compendium• 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. (1500-1600) Medieval Latin Latin compendere “to weigh together”, from com- ( → COM-) + pendere “to weigh” |
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