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catalogue

noun
 
🔊/ˈkætəlɒɡ/
🔊/ˈkætəlɔːɡ/
(US English also catalog)
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  1.  
    a complete list of items, for example of things that people can look at or buy目录；目录簿
    • a mail-order catalogue (= a book showing goods for sale to be sent to people’s homes)邮购商品目录
    • to consult the library catalogue查看图书馆目录
    • An illustrated catalogue accompanies the exhibition.展览会有插图目录。🔊🔊
    • Please take a look at our online catalogue.请阅览我们的在线目录。
    see also back catalogue
    Extra Examples
    • More details are given in our catalogue.详情请参阅我们的目录。
    • Send off for our illustrated catalogue of garden plants.来函索取园艺植物插图目录。
    • The gallery produced a catalogue of young artists.美术馆制作了年轻艺术家的作品目录。
    • She consulted the museum catalogue.她查看了博物馆的目录。
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • colour/​color
    • illustrated
    • mail-order
    • …
    verb + catalogue
    • produce
    • publish
    • browse through
    • …
    preposition
    • in a/​the catalogue
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  2. a long series of things that happen (usually bad things)一连串（糟糕）事
    • a catalogue of disasters/errors/misfortunes接二连三的灾难／错误／不幸
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    • The commission reported a catalogue of errors that went right to the top of government.该委员会报告了一系列错误，这些错误直达政府高层。
    • What followed was a whole catalogue of disasters.随之发生的是接二连三的灾难。
    • What we have here is a catalogue of failure.我们这里是失败的目录。
    • Child protection officers uncovered a catalogue of cruelty and abuse.儿童保护专员发现了一连串虐待儿童的事件。
    3. Word Originlate Middle English: via Old French from late Latin catalogus, from Greek katalogos, from katalegein ‘pick out or enrol’.

catalogue

verb
🔊/ˈkætəlɒɡ/
🔊/ˈkætəlɔːɡ/
(North American English also catalog)
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they catalogue
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he / she / it catalogues
🔊/ˈkætəlɒɡz/
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past simple catalogued
🔊/ˈkætəlɒɡd/
🔊/ˈkætəlɔːɡd/
past participle catalogued
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-ing form cataloguing
🔊/ˈkætəlɒɡɪŋ/
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  1. catalogue something to arrange a list of things in order in a catalogue; to record something in a catalogue列入目录；编入目录
    • It took six years to catalogue all the paintings.对所有画作进行分类花费了六年时间。
    • New books are catalogued on an electronic database.新书在电子数据库中分类。
    Extra Examples
    • She painstakingly catalogued all the photographs in the museum.她不辞劳苦地将博物馆里的所有照片编成目录。
    • The collection had never been properly catalogued.这些收藏品从未恰当编目。
    • The statue was catalogued as dating from the 13th century.该雕像被分类为可追溯到13世纪。
  2. catalogue something to give a list of things connected with a particular person, event, etc.记载，登记（某人、某事等的详情）
    • Interviews with the refugees catalogue a history of discrimination and violence.对难民的采访记录下了一部歧视和暴力的历史。🔊🔊
    3. Word Originlate Middle English: via Old French from late Latin catalogus, from Greek katalogos, from katalegein ‘pick out or enrol’.