congeries是什么意思
- 英式英标[kɑn\'dʒɪrɪ,iz]
- 美式音标[kɒn\'dʒɪəriːz; \'kɒndʒərɪz]
英文词源
- congeries (n.)
- 1610s, from Latin congeries "heap, pile, collected mass," from congerere "to carry together" (see congest). False singular congery is from 1866.
Man should have some sense of responsibility to the human congeries. As a matter of observation, very few men have any such sense. No social order can exist very long unless a few, at least a few, men have such a sense. [Ezra Pound, "ABC of Economics," 1933]
实用例句
- 1. He had inherited an organization, or rather a congeries of organizations.
- 他继承了一个组织, 或者不如说一大堆组织.
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