museum

英 [mju?'z??m] 美[mju'zi?m]

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museum 博物館

來自Muse,繆斯女神，-um,表地點。字面意思即繆斯女神的圣殿，與繆斯女神對話的地方。在古希臘時期用以指學校，圖書館，藝術學校，現(xiàn)僅用于指圖書館。

museum: museum: [17] Etymologically, a museum is a place devoted to the ‘muses’. It comes via Latin mūsēum ‘library, study’ from Greek mouseion ‘place of the muses’, a noun based on the adjective mouseios ‘of the muses’. This in turn was derived from mousa ‘muse’, source of English muse [14]. Other English words from the same source are mosaic and music. But muse ‘ponder’ is not related; it comes, like its first cousin amuse, from Old French muse ‘animal’s mouth’.
=> mosaic, muse, music
museum (n.): 1610s, "the university building in Alexandria," from Latin museum "library, study," from Greek mouseion "place of study, library or museum, school of art or poetry," originally "a seat or shrine of the Muses," from Mousa "Muse" (see muse (n.)). Earliest use in reference to English institutions was of libraries (such as the British Museum); sense of "building to display objects" first recorded 1680s.

1. The museum will have a permanent exhibition of 60 vintage cars.: 這個博物館將長期展出60輛老爺車。

2. Mr Morris feels the museum is using advertising to good effect.: 莫里斯先生認為博物館作的廣告卓有成效。

3. At that instant the museum was plunged into total darkness.: 就在那時，博物館陷入了一片漆黑。

4. Barely had the bulldozers started when Museum of London archaeologists swooped.: 推土機剛一啟動，倫敦博物館的考古學家們就蜂擁而至了。