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scriptorium

/skrip-tawr-ee-uhm, -tohr-/US // skrɪpˈtɔr i əm, -ˈtoʊr- //UK // (skrɪpˈtɔːrɪəm) //

剧本馆,剧本室,剧场,剧本院

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural scrip·to·ri·ums, scrip·to·ri·a [skrip-tawr-ee-uh, -tohr-]. /skrɪpˈtɔr i ə, -ˈtoʊr-/.

    • : a room, as in a monastery, library, or other institution, where manuscripts are stored, read, or copied.

Examples

  • Every volume had to be returned before the lights were lit, and work ceased in the scriptorium the instant the daylight failed.

  • It lay in a conspicuous place in the scriptorium, and no one but the chronicler was permitted to make entries in it.

  • At last he turned his back resolutely upon the picture of loveliness and entered the scriptorium.

  • Every considerable monastery had a room, called Scriptorium, where this work was performed.

  • Day after day he would trudge from his mother's house, and she was a widow, up to the monks' Scriptorium.