英语词汇“menagerie”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

menagerie

/məˈnadʒ(ə)ri

noun

A collection of wild animals kept in captivity for exhibition.He is a ‘country boy at heart’, a farmer's son from just outside the Lanarkshire town, who grew up among a bizarre menagerie of animals that he refers to as ‘a crazy sort of petting zoo’ and that include two ostriches....

Here, we saw a menagerie of farm animals and other small creatures at close quarters, too close when it came to the rats, which scurried along a run beneath our feet, and a tame jackdaw, called Jack, which decided to use my head as a perch.
About six weeks before, the beasts who were about three years old and half-grown, were taken from the Tower menagerie to the animals' hospital in Lytham Road South Shore, for a change.

Origin

Late 17th century: from French ménagerie, from ménage (see ménage).

单词	menagerie
释义	menagerie /məˈnadʒ(ə)ri / noun A collection of wild animals kept in captivity for exhibition.He is a ‘country boy at heart’, a farmer's son from just outside the Lanarkshire town, who grew up among a bizarre menagerie of animals that he refers to as ‘a crazy sort of petting zoo’ and that include two ostriches.... Here, we saw a menagerie of farm animals and other small creatures at close quarters, too close when it came to the rats, which scurried along a run beneath our feet, and a tame jackdaw, called Jack, which decided to use my head as a perch. About six weeks before, the beasts who were about three years old and half-grown, were taken from the Tower menagerie to the animals' hospital in Lytham Road South Shore, for a change. Origin Late 17th century: from French ménagerie, from ménage (see ménage).
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