單詞
bestiary
英 ['best??r?]
美['b?st??ri]
基本信息
- n. 動(dòng)物寓言集
詞態(tài)變化
復(fù)數(shù):?bestiaries;
英文詞源
- 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."
雙語(yǔ)例句
- 1. The animals listed in this bestiary range from the mundane to the fantastic.
- 這個(gè)動(dòng)物寓言集中列舉了各種普通的和奇妙的動(dòng)物.
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