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the art and study of designing buildings 建筑学 
to study architecture 学习建筑学 She's a professor of architecture at the University of Oregon. 她是俄勒冈大学的建筑学教授。 an architecture student/critic 建筑学学生/评论家
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the design or style of a building or buildings 建筑设计；建筑风格 the architecture of the eighteenth century 十八世纪的建筑风格 modern architecture 现代建筑设计 There are examples of most styles of architecture in the town. 镇上有许多建筑风格的例子。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- classical
- contemporary
- medieval
- …
- a school of architecture
- a style of architecture
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computing 计算机 the design and structure of a computer system 体系结构；（总体、层次）结构，架构 Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- client-server
- hardware
- information
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Word Originmid 16th cent.: from Latin architectura, from architectus from Greek arkhitektōn, from arkhi- ‘chief’ + tektōn ‘builder’.