英语词汇“cabinet of curiosities”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

cabinet of curiosities (also wonders): a room or case used to display a collection of rare or exotic objects, esp. items relating to natural history, ethnography, archaeology, etc., which may be exhibited to visitors or the general public; (in extended use) any assortment or miscellany of unusual, bizarre, or remarkable things. [After French cabinet de curiosités (1691 in the work translated in quot. 1695); compare German Wunderkammer , in the same sense, literally ‘chamber of wonders’ (16th cent. as wundercammer : see Wunderkammer n.).]

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society > communication > manifestation > showing to the sight > exposure to public view > [noun] > place for > room or showcase

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1695 tr. M. Misson New Voy. Italy II. xxiv. 66 In the several Cabinets of Curiosities [Fr. Cabinets] that I have seen in my Travels, I have observ'd a prodigious Variety of petrefy'd Bodies, Fruits, Flowers, Trees, Wood, Plants, Bones, Fishes, Bread, pieces of Flesh, and Animals of all sorts.

1782 T. Pennant Journey Chester to London 114 Among other things worthy of attention in the city, is the cabinet of curiosities, antient, natural, and artificial, in the possession of Mr. Greene, surgeon.

1824 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. II. xv. 296 Warton's essay on Pope is a cabinet of curiosities, in which are many trifles worth looking at, nothing to carry about or use.

1875 Forest & Stream 28 Jan. 388/3 Among the curiosities presented by the California salmon..were some malformations singular enough for a cabinet of wonders.

1949 Middletown (N.Y.) Times Herald 20 Dec. 2/2 That cabinet of wonders, the U. S. Patent Office.

2016 Journal (Newcastle) (Nexis) 31 May 35 The new display will feature glassware and ceramics, taxidermy, birds' eggs, insects, minerals and fossils—a modern spin on a Victorian cabinet of curiosities.

单词	cabinet of curiosities
释义	> as lemmas cabinet of curiosities (also wonders) cabinet of curiosities (also wonders): a room or case used to display a collection of rare or exotic objects, esp. items relating to natural history, ethnography, archaeology, etc., which may be exhibited to visitors or the general public; (in extended use) any assortment or miscellany of unusual, bizarre, or remarkable things. [After French cabinet de curiosités (1691 in the work translated in quot. 1695); compare German Wunderkammer , in the same sense, literally ‘chamber of wonders’ (16th cent. as wundercammer : see Wunderkammer n.).] ΘΚΠ society > communication > manifestation > showing to the sight > exposure to public view > [noun] > place for > room or showcase showroom1699 show-glass1708 showcase1803 panopticon1836 vitrine1880 1695 tr. M. Misson New Voy. Italy II. xxiv. 66 In the several Cabinets of Curiosities [Fr. Cabinets] that I have seen in my Travels, I have observ'd a prodigious Variety of petrefy'd Bodies, Fruits, Flowers, Trees, Wood, Plants, Bones, Fishes, Bread, pieces of Flesh, and Animals of all sorts. 1782 T. Pennant Journey Chester to London 114 Among other things worthy of attention in the city, is the cabinet of curiosities, antient, natural, and artificial, in the possession of Mr. Greene, surgeon. 1824 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. II. xv. 296 Warton's essay on Pope is a cabinet of curiosities, in which are many trifles worth looking at, nothing to carry about or use. 1875 Forest & Stream 28 Jan. 388/3 Among the curiosities presented by the California salmon..were some malformations singular enough for a cabinet of wonders. 1949 Middletown (N.Y.) Times Herald 20 Dec. 2/2 That cabinet of wonders, the U. S. Patent Office. 2016 Journal (Newcastle) (Nexis) 31 May 35 The new display will feature glassware and ceramics, taxidermy, birds' eggs, insects, minerals and fossils—a modern spin on a Victorian cabinet of curiosities. extracted from cabinetn.adj. < as lemmas
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