encyclopaedia

英 [ɛnˌsaɪkləʊˈpiːdjə]

美 [ɪnˌsaɪkləˈpidiə]

n.  百科全书

复数：encyclopaedias　

TEM8

BNC.14900 / COCA.29705

英英释义

noun

• a reference work (often in several volumes) containing articles on various topics (often arranged in alphabetical order) dealing with the entire range of human knowledge or with some particular specialty
  Synonym:encyclopediacyclopediacyclopaedia

双语例句

• He came to the door and tried to sell me an encyclopaedia but I soon sent him about his business.
  他来到门口，试图向我兜售百科全书，但我很快把他打发走了。
• The boy likes to read the children's encyclopaedia.
  那个男孩很喜欢看那本儿童百科全书。
• People expect me to be a walking encyclopaedia or a human calculator, she says, or to have very unusual, very esoteric, very arcane gifts and I'm really not that way at all.
  人们希望我是活的百科全书或人类计算机，她说，或者拥有极不平常、极其深奥、极不可思议的天赋，但我真的完全不是那样的。
• The child's essay was copied word for word out of an encyclopaedia.
  那孩子的文章是从百科全书一字不变地照抄来的。
• Jack decided to put his encyclopaedia to use.
  杰克决定使用他的百科全书。
• I'll look it up in the encyclopaedia.
  我将在百科全书中查阅它。
• I have a set of Encyclopaedia of music.
  我有一套音乐百科全书。
• Melville incorporated in "Moby Dick" an exhaustive encyclopaedia of whaling lore.
  梅尔维尔在《白鲸》中汇集了各种捕鲸知识。
• The most famous example is the popular Internet encyclopaedia Wikipedia.
  Wiki最著名的例子当属如今十分流行的互联网百科全书Wikipedia（维基百科）。
• The new edition of encyclopaedia will appear in the bookstores next week.
  新版百科全书下周就会在书店摆出来。