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menagerie

/muh-naj-uh-ree, -nazh-/US // məˈnædʒ ə ri, -ˈnæʒ- //UK // (mɪˈnædʒərɪ) //

戏院,戏班子,戏台,戏班

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a collection of wild or unusual animals, especially for exhibition.
    • : a place where they are kept or exhibited.
    • : an unusual and varied group of people.

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Examples

  • To replace that functionality, Google’s engineers have marched out a menagerie of bird-themed acronyms like FLOC, FLEDGE and TURTLEDOVE to describe their proposals for advertising without cookies.

  • Plenker is charged with keeping this murderous menagerie alive and well.

  • Our menagerie was not likely to be welcome at the city’s inns or hotels.

  • Thomas Jefferson Randolph, grandson and namesake of the third president, lamented that Virginia had become “one grand menagerie, where men are reared for the market like oxen for the shambles.”

  • Scientists increasingly connect it to our planet’s other special features, such as its stable atmosphere, protective magnetic field and menagerie of complex life.

  • On the outside, artists turned the yellow bus into a trippy menagerie of abstract scenes and designs.

  • A pile of straw right by the menagerie lit on fire, and reached the tent in seconds.

  • Displayed in a main hall lined with transparent cases, each is like a glass slipper menagerie.

  • Initially, it seems that oddities are what British journalist Jon Ronson is after in this charming menagerie of essays.

  • Guangdong has long been known for its menagerie of exotic ingredients.

  • On the first day of May, Barnum's menagerie came to our town; and Clarence went with his papa to see the animals.

  • Rabbah was to be a sheep-fold, Babylon a menagerie of wild beasts—a very specific difference and very improbable.

  • Juno lived in a great park, where there was a menagerie, and neither the park nor the menagerie could have done without Juno.

  • I saw the man at the menagerie giving them apples,” said Minnie; “but he did not give them any meat all the time I was there.

  • That which was in the menagerie of Versailles, which came from Congo, was but seven feet and a half high, in his seventeenth year.