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

• The encyclopaedia is being published gradually in twenty parts.
  这套百科全书将分为20册陆续出版。
• 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 boy likes to read the children's encyclopaedia.
  那个男孩很喜欢看那本儿童百科全书。
• This is an encyclopaedia of philosophy.
  这是本哲学百科全书。
• Whenever John has to write a report, he will look over the Encyclopaedia.
  约翰必须写报告时，就会查阅百科全书。
• Look it up! May's father bought her an encyclopaedia.
  查查看！梅的爸爸给她买了一部百科全书。
• The Encyclopaedia of Career Change and Work Issues
  职业变化和就业问题百科全书
• 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。
• 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）。
• With this latest step, Wikipedia is moving a little closer towards being like a normal encyclopaedia, where specialist editors make sure that, as far as is possible, the words that they print are true.
  通过上述最新举动，维基百科向普通百科全书又靠近了一步。在普通百科全书中，专业编辑会尽可能确保，他们出版的字词是正确的。