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词汇 curate
释义 curate
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈkjʊə.rət/ us /ˈkjʊr.ət/
a priest of the lowest rank, especially in the Church of England, whose job is to help the vicar (= priest of a particular area)(尤指英国国教会的)助理牧师
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Religious leaders & officials
anti-papal
apostolic
archbishop
archbishopric
archdeacon
clerically
confessor
curacy
deacon
minister
ministry
muezzin
mullah
non-clerical
priestly
primate
rabbi
rabbinical
the Dalai Lama
the priesthood

Idiom


curate's egg
curate
verb[ T ]
uk /kjʊəˈreɪt/ us /ˈkjʊr.eɪt/
to be in charge of selecting and caring for objects to be shown in a museum or to form part of a collection of art, an exhibition, etc.: 策划(展览等)
She curated a recent exhibition of Indian artwork.她最近策划了一个印度艺术展。
to be in charge of selecting films, performers, events, etc. to be included in a festival:
a Messiaen festival curated by pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard
to select things such as documents, music, products, or internet content to be included as part of a list or collection, or on a website:
a curated library of short movies available online
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Controlling and being in charge
aggrandize
assert your authority
assume
assumption
authoritative
cynical
get the better of someoneidiom
get your hooks into someone/somethingidiom
govern
guiding principle
harness
peremptorily
peremptory
play Godidiom
plenipotentiary
police
slow
tame
wrangle
wrangler

You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:


Exhibiting and exhibitions
Spectacles & performances
Taking and choosing
Lists and catalogues

Examples of curate


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If one is being kind to this directive one could describe it as being good in parts, like the curate's egg.
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I feel that it is more like the curate's egg or, if you like, the curate's turnip—in which some parts are better than others.
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There are good and bad, like the curate's egg.
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Like the curate's egg, it is good in some parts and bad in others.
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In my opinion, it is very much a curate's egg.
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They are almost like gigantic curates' ostrich eggs with parts which are good and parts which are perfectly appalling.
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The motion is something of a curate's egg.
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I am very much inclined to think it is very much like the curate's egg.
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If curates desire to come in it is desirable, at the same time that we deal with the matter, to deal with other classes.
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His speech was like the curate's egg—some parts good and some parts bad.
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In hundreds of cases the curate's salary is not paid by the incumbent but by private subscription.
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The fact that the incumbent does not get as much from private subscriptions or charitable offerings does not affect the curate's right.
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Is it going to do no harm to the curates?
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The curates as we know them arc really the assistant curates.
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Like the curate's egg, it is good in parts.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
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