bestiary
英 ['bestɪərɪ]
美['bɛstɪɛri]
- n. 动物寓言集
词态变化
复数: bestiaries;
英文词源
- bestiary (n.)
- "medieval treatise on beasts" usually with moralistic overtones, 1818, from Medieval Latin bestiarium "a menagerie," also "a book about animals", from bestia (see beast). A Latin term for such works was liber de bestiis compositus. Roman bestiarius meant "a fighter against beasts in the public entertainments."
双语例句
- 1. The animals listed in this bestiary range from the mundane to the fantastic.
- 这个动物寓言集中列举了各种普通的和奇妙的动物.
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