menagerie
英 [mə'nædʒ(ə)rɪ]
美[mə'nædʒəri]
- n. 动物园；动物展览；（马戏团豢养的）兽群
词态变化
复数: menageries;
中文词源
menagerie 小动物园，私人野生动物园
来自法语menagerie,畜养野生动物的屋子，来自menage,家庭，居住地。引申词义小动物园，尤指私人野生动物园。
英英释意
- 1. a collection of live animals for study or display
- 2. the facility where wild animals are housed for exhibition
英文词源
- menagerie
- menagerie: see manor
- menagerie (n.)
- "collection of wild animals kept in captivity," 1712, from French ménagerie "housing for domestic animals" (16c.), from Old French manage (see menage).
实用场景例句
- The office is a menagerie of egotists and sycophants.
- 该办公室乃是自私者与谄媚者汇集之处.
《简明英汉词典》
- " Well, he certainly must have strained himself to get this menagerie together. "
- “ 我说, 他一定花了很大的气力才搜罗到这么一大帮牛头马面. ”
英汉文学 - 盖茨比
- They followed it this time, as eager as children in sight of a circus menagerie.
- 这一次他们跟着它前进了, 那种迫切的心情就象孩子见了马戏团里巡回动物园一样.
辞典例句
- Menagerie , Laura Wingfield suffers severe inferiority complex caused by her physical disability.
- 温费尔德由于身体残疾而产生了严重的自卑情结.
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