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A glass room attached to a house, used for sitting in the sunlight, often full of plants — like a small greenhouse room. It's also the name for a school where students study music, art, or drama at a serious, high level (a music conservatory).
溫室（玻璃房）；(音樂等)專科學院
組成conserve (to protect and keep something safe) + -atory (a place for doing something).
同家族的字
- conservethe base word, meaning "to protect or keep safe"
- conservationshares the same root, about protecting or keeping safe
原始詞典資料12 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
conservatoryadj詞源 1/kənˈsɜː.və.tɹi/
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Having the quality of preserving from loss, decay, or injury.
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rareRelating to conservation.
conservatorynoun詞源 2/kənˈsɜː.və.tɹi/
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obsoleteA medicine, especially a magical preservative.
- The auncient Catholyke fathers... were not afrayde to call this Supper... the foode of immortalitie... and the conseruatory to euerlastyng lyfe.
- ...a tree appointed to be the cure of diseases and a conservatory of life...
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A school or clinic for orphans.
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A music school.
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archaicA storehouse, a repository.
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obsoleteAn icehouse, a warehouse for ice.
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obsoleteA cistern, an artificially collected body of water.
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obsoleteA reservoir, an artificially maintained body of water.
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A greenhouse, a glass-walled building for cultivating delicate plants.
另外 2 個記錄的用法
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A solarium, a glass-walled and glass-roofed room in a house.
- Joyce Barnaby: It's a lovely cottage in Badger's Drift. It's got two bedrooms, two living rooms and a conservatory. DCI Tom Barnaby: Conservatory? Sounds like something out of Cluedo. Cully Barnaby: Colonel Mustard with the candlestick in the conservatory.
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A drama school.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。