a complete list of items, for example of things that people can look at or buy 目录;目录簿 a mail-order catalogue (= a book showing goods for sale to be sent to people’s homes) 邮购商品目录 to consult the library catalogue 查看图书馆目录 An illustrated catalogue accompanies the exhibition. 展览会有插图目录。 Please take a look at our online catalogue. 请阅览我们的在线目录。
Extra ExamplesMore details are given in our catalogue. 详情请参阅我们的目录。 Send off for our illustrated catalogue of garden plants. 来函索取园艺植物插图目录。 The gallery produced a catalogue of young artists. 美术馆制作了年轻艺术家的作品目录。 She consulted the museum catalogue. 她查看了博物馆的目录。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- colour/color
- illustrated
- mail-order
- …
- produce
- publish
- browse through
- …
- in a/the catalogue
a long series of things that happen (usually bad things) 一连串(糟糕)事 a catalogue of disasters/errors/misfortunes 接二连三的灾难/错误/不幸
Extra ExamplesThe commission reported a catalogue of errors that went right to the top of government. 委员会向政府高层报告了一系列错误。 What followed was a whole catalogue of disasters. 随之发生的是接二连三的灾难。 What we have here is a catalogue of failure. 我们这里有一系列的失败。 Child protection officers uncovered a catalogue of cruelty and abuse. 儿童保护专员发现了一连串虐待儿童的事件。
Word Originlate Middle English: via Old French from late Latin catalogus, from Greek katalogos, from katalegein ‘pick out or enrol’.