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单词 cornucopia
释义
cornucopiacor‧nu‧co‧pi‧a /ˌkɔːnjəˈkəʊpiə $ ˌkɔːrnəˈkoʊ-/ noun [singular] Word Origin
WORD ORIGINcornucopia
Origin:
1500-1600 Late Latin, Latin cornu copiae ‘horn containing large amounts’
Examples
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  • Cable would offer a cornucopia of arts performances, serious drama, science, and quality programs for children and the elderly.
  • For Elizabeth Gould, however, this ornithological cornucopia right on the doorstep did not hold the same all-encompassing fascination.
  • I was in Heaven, smelling everything, grinning from east to west with the salivary promise of an upended cornucopia.
  • Most of them believe the golf cornucopia just grew, like Topsy.
  • Partiya's cornucopia of consumer items is priced in dollars.
  • Secondly, it is often argued that farm workers are compensated for their low wages by a cornucopia of payments in kind.
  • The composer must be pleased, therefore, by this cornucopia of recent recordings.
  • What mixed cornucopia will the blossoming of full information control bring about?
1a container in the shape of an animal’s horn, full of fruit and flowers, used to represent a time when there are large supplies of food2 literary a lot of good thingscornucopia of a cornucopia of delights
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