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As a verb, to choose and arrange items carefully for other people — a museum worker curates an exhibition by deciding which paintings to show and how to arrange them; today people also say someone 'curates' a playlist, a gift box, or a social media feed, meaning they pick things with care. As a noun (pronounced differently, stress on the first part), 'a curate' is an older, mostly British word for a junior member of clergy who helps the main priest look after a church.
(動詞)策展、精選;(名詞,宗教用語)副牧師、助理牧師
組成From Latin cura ("care"). The noun sense (church helper) came first, meaning someone who has "the care" of souls; the verb sense came later, borrowed back from "curator" (a museum caretaker).
原始詞典資料7 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。
curatenoun詞源 1/ˈkjʊəɹət/
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An assistant rector or vicar.
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A parish priest.
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An assistant barman.
- ‘Here, Pat, give us a g.p., like a good fellow.’ The curate brought him a glass of plain porter. The man drank it at a gulp and asked for a caraway seed. He put his penny on the counter and, leaving the curate to grope for it in the gloom, retreated out of the snug as furtively as he had entered it.
curateverb詞源 2/kjʊəˈɹeɪt/
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To act as a curator for.
- She curated the traveling exhibition.
- They carefully curated the recovered artifacts.
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To apply selectivity and taste to, as a collection of fashion items or web pages.
- What I love about DVRs is that they really allow you to curate your experience of television.
- During the past five years I had the good fortune to be editor of Poetry Northwest. The magazine's mission includes curating a dialogue between poetry, the other arts, and civic life.
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To work or act as a curator.
- Not only does he curate for the museum, he manages the office and fund-raises.
curatenoun詞源 3
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chemistryinorganic-chemistrynatural-sciencesAn oxyanion of curium; any salt containing such an anion.
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。