cornucopia

英 [ˌkɔːnjuˈkəʊpiə]

美 [ˌkɔːrnjuˈkoʊpiə]

n.  丰饶角，丰饶角饰(艺术作品中装满水果和鲜花、形似动物角的装饰物); 丰盛; 丰富; 丰饶

复数：cornucopias　

GRE医学

BNC.32658 / COCA.21423

牛津词典

noun

• 丰饶角，丰饶角饰（艺术作品中装满水果和鲜花、形似动物角的装饰物）
  a decorative object shaped like an animal's horn, shown in art as full of fruit and flowers
• 丰盛；丰富；丰饶
  something that is or contains a large supply of good things
  1. The book is a cornucopia of good ideas.
     这部书里有无数好主意。

柯林斯词典

• N-SING 丰盛;丰富;丰饶
  Acornucopia ofthings is a large number of different things.
  1. ...a cornucopia of fruits...
     丰盛的水果
  2. ...a table festooned with a cornucopia of fruit.
     用很多水果装饰的桌子

英英释义

noun

• the property of being extremely abundant
  1. the profusion of detail
  2. the idiomatic richness of English
  Synonym:profusionprofusenessrichness
• a goat's horn filled with grain and flowers and fruit symbolizing prosperity
  Synonym:horn of plenty

双语例句

• Diligence is a money-spinner, thrifty is the cornucopia.
  勤是摇钱树，俭是聚宝盆。
• The symbols of Helios were horses 'heads, a crown of seven rays, a cornucopia, and a ripened fruit.
  赫利奥斯的象征物是马头、七彩王冠、羊角盛器和成熟的水果。
• Physicists expect these super-energetic collisions between protons and later between far heavier lead nuclei to produce a cornucopia of subatomic particles never before seen on earth.
  物理学家预计，在质子之间以及未来进行的在重得多的铅原子核之间的超高能对撞，将产生大量地球上未曾有过的亚原子粒子。
• The book is a cornucopia of information.
  书是知识的宝库。
• The deviations from "rational behaviour" were not the wonderful cornucopia of humanist motivations you might imagine.
  偏离“理性行为”，并非像你可能想象的那样，是人类动机的普遍产物。
• It is true that the new digital media have made available an extraordinary cornucopia of information and ideas for those people who want to look for it.
  不错，新的数字媒体为那些主动的读者提供了极其丰富的信息与创意。
• Over the years, I've ripped my music onto various computers and, in the process, muddled my MP3 collection to the point where I have numerous directories representing a cornucopia of music.
  多年以来，我把我的音乐截取到不同的计算机上，在这个过程中，我的MP3收藏乱到了这样一种层度：只是表示品种丰富的音乐目录就有一大堆。
• This module defines a cornucopia of assertion methods, but rather than being extended, Ruby's TestCase class includes the assertion as a mix-in.
  这个模块定义了许多断言方法，但是Ruby不对这个模块进行扩展，Ruby的TestCase类以mix-in的形式包含assertion。
• In the foreground is a cornucopia ( a symbol of abundance that is a common decorative motif at Thanksgiving) labeled'economy '.
  在靠前的地方有一个羊角状器皿（羊角是丰饶的象征，是感恩节时很普遍的装饰图案），上写着“经济”二字，美国经济的确在大幅增长，但是谁受益呢？
• Would you create a massive organisation of paid experts with layers of editors producing tomes that are controlled by copyright and trademark? Or would you wait for hobbyists, scientists and volunteer encyclopedists to produce, and search engines to organise, a cornucopia of information?
  你会创建一个由有偿专家和各类编辑组成的庞大组织，创作受到版权和商标保护的鸿篇巨制，还是等待爱好者、科学家和自告奋勇的百科全书编纂者来创作、由搜索引擎来整理一本信息大全呢？