aquarium

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復數:?aquaria;?aquariums;

aquarium 水族館

來自詞根aqua, 水。

aquarium: aquarium: [19] Aquarium is a modern adaptation of the neuter form of the Latin adjective aquārius ‘watery’ (a noun aquārium existed in Roman times, but it meant ‘place where cattle drink’). Its model was vivarium, a 16th-century word for a ‘place for keeping live animals’. This was the term first pressed into service to describe such a place used for displaying fish and other aquatic life: in 1853 the magazine Athenaeum reported that ‘the new Fish house at the London Zoo has received the somewhat curious title of the “Marine Vivarium”’; and in the following year the guidebook to the Zoological Gardens called it the ‘Aquatic Vivarium’.

Within a year or two of this, however, the term aquarium had been coined and apparently established.
aquarium (n.): 1830, noun use of neuter of Latin aquarius "pertaining to water," as a noun, "water-carrier," genitive of aqua "water" (see aqua-). The word existed in Latin, but there it meant "drinking place for cattle." Originally especially for growing aquatic plants; An earlier attempt at a name for "fish tank" was marine vivarium.

1. Previous attempts at filtering and oxygenating aquarium water had failed.: 之前嘗試過幾次將魚缸中的水過濾并充氧，但都沒有成功。

4. Inside was peacock water, rocks and weed'showing as in an aquarium.: 礁石內側:海水絢爛, 暗礁林立,海藻叢生,就象水族館的生態(tài)展覽一樣.

5. The occasion begins well with a visit to the local aquarium.: 會見是以參觀當地的水族館開始的.