- 1百科全書式的、知識淵博的
If you have encyclopedic knowledge of a subject, you know a huge amount about it — almost as if a whole reference book lives in your head. People mostly use this of knowledge, memory, or a mind: encyclopedic knowledge of jazz, of birds, of old film. It is a , slightly word. You will meet it in writing and from teachers more than in quick chat. Though actually, it does not mean you know everything in the world; it means that one field is unusually wide and full in your head. There is a quieter second use, too: an encyclopedic book or article tries to cover a subject from end to end, like a true reference work. It is not a word for “smart in general.” Someone can be clever and still not have encyclopedic knowledge of anything.
組成From Greek enkúklios (en- “in” + kúklos “circle,” so “rounded, all-round”) + paideíā (“education,” from paîs, “child”). The old idea was a complete circle of learning. English built encyclopedia from that, then encyclopedic from the noun.
同家族的字
- encyclopediathe book of wide learning this adjective comes from
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
encyclopedicadj/ensaiːkloˈpʰiːdək/
- 1
Of or relating to the characteristics of an encyclopedia; concerning all subjects, having comprehensive information or knowledge.
- 2
human-scienceslexicographylinguisticsRelating to or containing descriptive information rather than only linguistic or lexical information; about facts and concepts, and not only a word or term; including proper names, biographical and geographical information and illustrations.
- [p 151] Although separate encyclopedic sections have nothing to do with the dictionary proper, there are no compelling logical reasons for condemning them. [p 212] Terms derived from names fall into three categories. Some, like Chomskyan, refer to a person and the work done by that person, or to a place or a person from that place (Virginian, Londoner), and should be defined only in relation to the person or place. They are essentially encyclopedic entries and, if the dictionary contains an entry for the person or place in question, could well be run on without a separate definition. [p 359] The difficulty of distinguishing between lexical units and items in a nomenclature is especially nettlesome in specialized dictionaries, which are by their nature more encyclopedic than general dictionaries.
- Thus there are 3751 lexical items covered in total. Taking into account polysemy, there are 4315 separate senses. Of these, 1021 terms are proper nouns. Thus 23.7% of the lexis covered consists of encyclopaedic material.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。