museum: [17] Etymologically, a museum is a place devoted to the ‘muses’. It comes via Latin mūsēum ‘library, study’ from Greek mouseion ‘place of the muses’, a noun based on the adjective mouseios ‘of the muses’. This in turn was derived from mousa ‘muse’, source of English muse [14]. Other English words from the same source are mosaic and music. But muse ‘ponder’ is not related; it comes, like its first cousin amuse, from Old French muse ‘animal’s mouth’. => mosaic, muse, music
museum (n.)
1610s, "the university building in Alexandria," from Latin museum "library, study," from Greek mouseion "place of study, library or museum, school of art or poetry," originally "a seat or shrine of the Muses," from Mousa "Muse" (see muse (n.)). Earliest use in reference to English institutions was of libraries (such as the British Museum); sense of "building to display objects" first recorded 1680s.
雙語例句
1. The museum will have a permanent exhibition of 60 vintage cars.
這個博物館將長期展出60輛老爺車。
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2. Mr Morris feels the museum is using advertising to good effect.
莫裏斯先生認為博物館作的廣告卓有成效。
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3. At that instant the museum was plunged into total darkness.
就在那時，博物館陷入了一片漆黑。
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4. Barely had the bulldozers started when Museum of London archaeologists swooped.
推土機剛一啟動，倫敦博物館的考古學家們就蜂擁而至了。
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5. A visit to the Museum is an unforgettable experience.