| 词组 | compendium |
| 释义 | compendium Bernstein 1962, 1965 and Copperud 1964, 1970, 1980 assert that a compendium must be an abridgment or something brief—something little, not big. Bryson 1984 says size has nothing to do with it— the point is the concise treatment. All three have unfortunately fixed on one use of a multipurpose word and assumed that their use is the only correct use. Compendium is not a narrowly or precisely applied word. It has been used of items as diverse as books, people, packages of stationery, periodicals, buildings, and collections of several kinds. The doubtful should look at the examples given in the OED, the OED Supplement, or Webster's Third. Or read the fairly recent examples shown below. The plurals compendia and compendiums, by the way, are both acceptable. • Polio victims are a compendium of all the virtues — Wilfrid Sheed, People Will Always Be Kind, 1973 • Important is naturally the most overused word in these compendia, which are now easily available in museum bookshops —Marina Vaizey, in Michaels & Ricks 1980 • Changing Climate, a compendium of reviews, original contributions, and synthesis —John S. Perry, Nature, 24 Oct. 1984 • His compendia of shibboleths run for scores of pages —Harvey A. Daniels, Famous Last Words, 1983 • ... stationery in a wide choice of colors, ready-packaged in compendiums whose boxes are a stately form of gift wrap in themselves —New Yorker, 21 Nov. 1983 • ... compendia, ranging from extensive but unoriginal compilations all the way to mere reproductions of lecture-notes —Robert A. Hall, Jr., External History of the Romance Languages, 1974 • She suddenly became a compendium of knowledge about Maoris and kiwi birds and sheep dipping — Cynthia Heimel, Playboy, November 1983 • Hyannis is a concrete compendium of shopping malls, fast-food drive-ins and tourist stands —Milton Moore, N.Y. Times, 17 July 1983 • ... her role ... is a compendium of her previous roles —Pauline Kael, New Yorker, 30 Jan. 1971 • The buildings themselves are a compendium of clichés of modern architecture —Paul Goldberger, N.Y. Times, 2 July 1976 • From the administration's point of view, the direct subsidy to the Russians is a drop in the bucket compared with the full compendium of direct and indirect subsidies — Wall Street Jour., 13 Aug. 1986 |
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