encyclopedia
英 [ɪnˌsaɪ.kləˈpiː.di.ə]
美 [ɪnˌsaɪ.kləˈpiː.di.ə]
记忆“encyclopedia”可以分解为两个部分:“en-cy-clo-p-e-dia”。可以将它想象为一个人(en)在圈子(cyclo)中拿着一本大书(pedia)。这种场景可以帮助记忆这个词是由一个人围绕一个知识圈子,拥有一个全面的书籍集合组成,即百科全书。
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encyclopedia 百科全书en-, 进入,使。-cycle, 圈。-ped, 小孩,教育,词源同few, pedagogy,pedophilia.原指教育小孩的通识教育丛书,后指百科全书。
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encyclopedia: [16] Etymologically, encyclopedia means ‘general education’. It is a medieval formation, based on the Greek phrase egkúklios paideíā (egkúklios, a compound adjective formed from the prefix en- ‘in’ and kúklos ‘circle’ – source of English cycle – meant originally ‘circular’, and hence ‘general’, and is the ultimate source of English encyclical [17]; paideíā ‘education’ was a derivative of país ‘boy, child’, which has given English paederast [18], paedophilia [20], pedagogue [14], pedant [16], and paediatrician [20]).
This referred to the general course of education which it was customary to give a child in classical Greece, and after it was merged into a single word egkuklopaideíā and transmitted via medieval Latin encyclopedia into English, it retained that meaning at first. However, in the 17th century the term began to be applied to compendious reference works (the first, or at least the one which did most to establish the name, was perhaps that of J H Alsted in 1632).
The Encyclopedia Britannica was first published in 1768.
=> cycle, encyclical, paederast, pedagogue, pedant, pediatrician
- encyclopedia (n.)
- 1530s, "general course of instruction," from Modern Latin encyclopaedia (c. 1500), thought to be a false reading by Latin authors of Greek enkyklios paideia taken as "general education," but literally "training in a circle," i.e. the "circle" of arts and sciences, the essentials of a liberal education; from enkyklios "circular," also "general" (from en "in;" see in + kyklos "circle;" see cycle (n.)) + paideia "education, child-rearing," from pais (genitive paidos) "child" (see pedo-).
Modern sense of "reference work arranged alphabetically" is from 1640s, often applied specifically to the French "Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des Sciences, des Arts, et des Métiers" (1751-65). Related: Encyclopedist.
- 1. The Encyclopedia is packed with clear illustrations and over 250 recipes.
- 那本百科全书有很多清晰的插图和250多个食谱。
- 2. The encyclopedia fell to the floor with a thud.
- 那本百科全书砰的一声掉到地上.
- 3. Geoff is a walking encyclopedia. He knows about everything.
- 杰夫是个活百科全书, 他什么都懂.
- 4. A dictionary explains words and an encyclopedia explains facts.
- 字典解释词而百科全书解释事实.
- 5. Why don't you look it up in the encyclopedia?
- 你为什么不去查百科全书?