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词汇 miscellany
释义 miscellany
noun[ S ]
uk /mɪˈsel.ə.ni/ us /ˈmɪs.ə.leɪ.ni/

miscellanynoun[S] (MIXTURE)


a mixture of different things: 拼缀物,拼凑的东西,杂烩
The museum houses a fascinating miscellany of nautical treasures.这家博物馆收藏了一批令人着迷的各式航海珍宝。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Variety and mixtures
all manner of somethingidiom
alphabet soup
assorted
assortment
biodiverse
hotchpotch
hybridize
hybridized
it takes all sorts (to make a world)idiom
jumble
odds and ends
of every stripe/of all stripesidiom
panoply
patchwork
polycentric
this
this and thatidiom
variety is the spice of lifeidiom
variously
wide choice

miscellanynoun[S] (BOOK)


a book containing a collection of pieces of writing either by different writers or by one writer on different subjects: 杂记
She's just finished editing "A Miscellany of English Cookery".她刚刚完成了《英国烹饪术》一书的编辑工作。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Groups and collections of things
age bracket
agglomerate
agglomeration
Aladdin's cave
anthology
array
basket
crop
empty set
ensemble
family
feast
glory box
package
portfolio
sheaf
sheaves
starter pack
store cupboard
storehouse

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Books: kinds of books

Examples of miscellany


miscellany
The contents, unsurprisingly, constitute something of a miscellany.
The editors in their introduction try heroically to pull the miscellany together, and do provide something of the general overview conspicuously absent from the collection as a whole.
Outside the public utility section, there is a miscellany of properties, some, but only a few, of which have been mentioned in this debate.
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To put on his shoulders and into his hands the miscellany of functions not directly connected with his main functions is open to great objection.
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I think that those 6 million people were voting for a miscellany of reasons.
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I can comment on it only in sections, because it is a miscellany; it is a hotchpotch of various odds and ends.
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I know of cases in which as many as 10 professionals have offered a miscellany of different and sometimes hostile opinions to each other.
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They are reserved in this country by a miscellany of enactments and rules of law and practice which have evolved over the years.
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She said that there was a miscellany of different opinions: how many, and who?
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I wish to make a few comments in response to the miscellany of "running repairs".
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Let us imagine that the rest of its assets are in a miscellany of investments.
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A miscellany of clauses deals with offences, proceedings, regulations, entry into force, and repeal of existing legislation.
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They took over a vast miscellany of undertakings.
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We want labels not to be a long miscellany of chemical and other substances that are included because those ingredients are there.
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The reasons were given in a miscellany of mixed metaphors.
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