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A menagerie is a group of wild animals kept together so people can see them. Long ago, before most towns had a public zoo, a rich person might keep lions, strange birds, and monkeys in their own grounds — that collection was a menagerie. Travelling shows used to bring a menagerie from town to town. Today the usual public place is a zoo, so menagerie sounds a little old, or a little special. People also stretch it, with a smile: a house full of mixed pets, or a noisy mixed group of people, can be called a menagerie, as if the place were a small zoo. It is a picture-word, not a science word.
私人動物園；珍禽異獸的蒐藏（現在一般公共的那座叫動物園）
組成From French ménagerie, from ménager（料理家務）. Housekeeping used to include looking after the animals of the house; later the word named a collection of animals, often wild ones, kept to be seen.
原始詞典資料4 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。
menagerienoun/məˈnæd͡ʒəɹɪ/
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A collection of live wild animals as an exhibition historically associated with the aristocracy and considered a precursor of modern zoos.
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The enclosure where they are kept.
- In Sacramento a crazed woman opened the cages of a circus menagerie for fear the animals might starve to death, and had been mauled by a lioness.
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A diverse or miscellaneous group.
- [Brigitte] Bardot, the stunning, desirable beauty who once stood for sexual freedom for women, spent the latter part of her life at her home near Saint Tropez with her husband and a menagerie of pets.
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obsoleteslangThe orchestra of a theatre.
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。