aquarium

• n. 水族馆；养鱼池；玻璃缸

来自词根aqua, 水。

aquarium

aquarium: [19] Aquarium is a modern adaptation of the neuter form of the Latin adjective aquārius ‘watery’ (a noun aquārium existed in Roman times, but it meant ‘place where cattle drink’). Its model was vivarium, a 16th-century word for a ‘place for keeping live animals’. This was the term first pressed into service to describe such a place used for displaying fish and other aquatic life: in 1853 the magazine Athenaeum reported that ‘the new Fish house at the London Zoo has received the somewhat curious title of the “Marine Vivarium”’; and in the following year the guidebook to the Zoological Gardens called it the ‘Aquatic Vivarium’.

Within a year or two of this, however, the term aquarium had been coined and apparently established.

aquarium (n.)

1830, noun use of neuter of Latin aquarius "pertaining to water," as a noun, "water-carrier," genitive of aqua "water" (see aqua-). The word existed in Latin, but there it meant "drinking place for cattle." Originally especially for growing aquatic plants; An earlier attempt at a name for "fish tank" was marine vivarium.

来自柯林斯例句

2. The aquarium has many tanks of fish.

那家水族馆有许多装在水箱中的鱼类.

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3. The first time I saw seals was in an aquarium.

我第一次看见海豹是在水族馆里。

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4. Inside was peacock water, rocks and weed'showing as in an aquarium.

礁石内侧:海水绚烂, 暗礁林立,海藻丛生,就象水族馆的生态展览一样.

来自辞典例句

5. The occasion begins well with a visit to the local aquarium.

会见是以参观当地的水族馆开始的.

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