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Victoriana means things from the Victorian period — the years Queen Victoria ruled Britain, 1837 to 1901. Not the ideas or the history, but the objects: heavy dark furniture, china figures, framed pictures of stiff-looking families, lace, brass lamps, jewellery made from hair, stuffed birds under glass domes. Take a pile of such things together and you have Victoriana. The shape of the word matters. It names a collection or a body of such stuff, treated as one mass, so it takes no plural and usually no "a": you say "a shop full of Victoriana", not "three Victorianas". English has a small family of words built this way — Americana, Shakespeariana — all meaning "the collected objects and bits and pieces connected with this thing". Where you meet it: antique shops, auction catalogues, articles about interior design, and people talking about how a room is . It has a slightly , collector's tone. Very often it comes with a hint that there is rather a lot of it and it is all a bit much — "the room was crowded with Victoriana" is not entirely a compliment. It can also stretch beyond real antiques to a style: new things made to look Victorian, or a film or novel full of gaslight, fog, and long dresses, may be described as Victoriana. Keep the capital V — it comes from a queen's name.
維多利亞時代的物品、擺設、風格收藏(家具、瓷器、飾品等);不可數,也沒有複數。中文常說「維多利亞時代風格的老東西/古董」
組成Victoria (the queen's name) + -ana, a Latin ending English borrowed to mean "the collected things belonging to". So: the collected stuff of Victoria's time. The name Victoria itself is the Latin word for victory.
原始詞典資料2 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。
Victoriananoun詞源 1/vɪkˌtɔɹiˈænə/
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Items related to the Victorian era, especially collectibles.
- To lovers of Victoriana it will not be necessary to enlarge on the original beauty of many [old stations], but to the modern traveller romantic nostalgia will not compensate for bleak, draughty waiting rooms, ancient sanitation, uncomfortable grimy seats and gas lighting; he is likely to prefer the comforts of a modern car on a winter's morning.
- A Suite en forme de Valses by the 19th century Frenchwoman Melanie Bonis is a piece of third rate Victoriana which should be returned to the attic.
Victoriananame詞源 2/vɪkˌtɔɹiˈænə/
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A female given name from Spanish or Latin.
- A daughter, Emma Victoriana Woller, was born Sept. 12, 2006, at Saint Joseph’s Hospital to Annette and Matthew Woller of Marshfield. She joins a sister, Abigail, 23 months.
- Melissa Vialpando, 36, was with her 16-month-old daughter Victoriana, and husband, Mike, and said she enjoys the small-town feel of Vail, and Montgomery’s reflects that.
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。