- 1雕像（群體總稱）、雕像藝術
Statues, thought of together as a group rather than one at a time. If a garden has ten stone figures in it, you can say the garden is full of statuary — you would not say "ten statuaries", because the word already covers the whole lot of them. It is an uncountable word in this use, like furniture or luggage. It is a formal, rather word: you meet it in museum labels, , auction catalogues, and writing about art and history. Ordinary people talking about a park would just say "the statues". You will also see it as an adjective in a few fixed pairs, most often "statuary marble" — marble of the quality used for figures. There is an older, now rare use where a statuary is a person who makes statues, which is where the Latin word starts; you may still meet it in old books, but nobody uses it that way today.
組成From Latin: statuārius, from statua (a statue), from statuere — to set up, to make something stand. The -ary ending here comes from Latin -arius, which makes a word meaning "having to do with" — so, the things (or once, the person) having to do with statues.
原始詞典資料4 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。
statuarynoun詞源 1/ˈstæ.t͡ʃʊə.ɹi/
- 1
The craft of making statues.
- 2
Statues considered collectively.
- Simply on aesthetic grounds I can almost applaud the Victorians’ fig obsessed Bowdlerisation of Greek and Roman statuary.
statuarynoun詞源 2/ˈstæ.t͡ʃʊə.ɹi/
- 1
A person who makes or deals in statues.
statuaryadj詞源 3/ˈstæ.t͡ʃʊə.ɹi/
- 1
Of, relating to, or characteristic of statues.
- He [Francis Bacon] lyeth interred in the Church of St. Michael at St. Albans in Hartfordſhire, and hath there a fair ſtatuary monument erected for him of white Marble at the coſt of Sir Thomas Meautis, his ancient ſervant, who was not neerer to him living then dead: […]
- There is the lady’s own book, complete without a teacher—showing how the waist should be boddiced; the parasol handled; the statuary attitudes; the Parisian curtsy; the prettiest toss of the head, and swing of the train.
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。