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museum

/myoo-zee-uhm/US // myuˈzi əm //UK // (mjuːˈzɪəm) //

博物馆,博物院,馆,馆内

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a building or place where works of art, scientific specimens, or other objects of permanent value are kept and displayed.

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Examples

  • From photos of museum specimens, the researchers sized up the lizards’ toepads.

  • Unearthed in the 1930s from what is now Libya, it sat for decades in a museum.

  • Cincinnati Arts and EntertainmentThe Cincinnati Art Museum was founded in 1881, and is one of the oldest art museums in the United States.

  • Unearthed in the 1930s, the fossil came from what’s now Libya and sat for decades in a museum.

  • We were going to restaurants, cafes, museums, and every now and again we’d have a thought about the problem.

  • He also warns that the entire Uffizi museum should be fortified with anti-seismic measures.

  • Prado was the first name I recognized here since I used to live a few blocks from the Prado museum in Madrid when I was 20.

  • And if you want proof of what the country is really all about, just walk through the National September 11 Memorial Museum.

  • The question implicit in this effort, “If you were starting a museum, what would you put in your collection?”

  • Blues music is often treated like a museum piece, a relic from a bygone day, but this band will make you want to get up and dance.

  • While residing in Brussels these two artists began to collect works of art for what is now known as the Mesdag Museum.

  • The Ashmolean museum, at Oxford, England, founded for the purpose of receiving the antiquary's "twelve cartloads of rarities."

  • A student, showing the Museum at Oxford to a party, among other things produced a rusty sword.

  • Bluebeard, you know, had a whole museum of them—as that imprudent little last wife of his found out to her cost.

  • If, however, I was agreeably surprised by my visit to the theatre, I experienced quite a contrary feeling on going to the Museum.