anatomy

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a·nat·o·my /əˈnætəmi/ noun (plural anatomies)

1 [uncountableU]M the scientific study of the structure of human or animal bodies 解剖学

a professor of anatomy

解剖学教授

human/animal anatomy

Knowledge of human anatomy is essential to figure drawing.

人体解剖学知识对于人体素描是极其重要的。

2 [countableC usually singular]MBODY the structure of a body, or of a part of a body 〔人体的〕解剖构造

anatomy of

the anatomy of the nervous system

神经系统的解剖构造

3 BODY[countableC] your body – often used in a humorous way 人体〔常为幽默用法〕

You could see a part of his anatomy that I’d rather not mention.

你都能看到他的某个身体部位，是什么部位我就不想说了。

4 the/an anatomy of something

a) a study or examination of an organization, process etc in order to understand and explain how it works 对某事物的剖析

Elkind’s book is an anatomy of one man’s discussion with his son about life.

埃尔金德的书分析了一个男人与儿子关于人生问题的讨论。

b) the structure of an organization, process etc or the way it works 〔组织、进程等的〕体系，方法

For the first time, we have the chance to examine the anatomy of a secret government operation.

我们第一次有机会研究一个秘密政府行动的运作过程。

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the/an anatomy of something• Elkind's book is an anatomy of one man's discussion with his son about life.• For the first time, we have a chance to examine the anatomy of a secret government operation.• First, the anatomy of an ice dam; how it happens and why.• Her best-known work concerned the anatomy of seedlings.• It is hard to work out the anatomy of the brain.• Many such debatable questions raised by the anatomy of these creatures still await universally agreed answers.• These high rates reflect the anatomy of the cervical spine and the dynamic forces that act on it.• This is now widely accepted, but Mr.X, strangely, never pursued it further with reference to the anatomy of the individual golfer.

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anatomy• As well as medical preparations, it contained a great deal of comparative anatomy, including fossils.• And fewer than 10 % of shoe salespeople have had even basic training in foot anatomy or shoe sizing.• He became assistant to the Professor and demonstrator of anatomy, at £25 perannum, plus coals for his sitting room.• She read Victorian novels and studied textbooks of anatomy.• This book is not an analysis of that anatomy.• We unfolded them carefully, spread them out gently, and studied their anatomy.

human/animal anatomy• Departures from normal human anatomy were marked in red.• It was a book of animal anatomy.• Diogenes backed up his theory of the importance of air circulating through the body with some primitive human anatomy.• And the ear is not the only sensitive part of the human anatomy which Cloverleaf is designed to appeal to.• A vulnerable part of the human anatomy.• Such were Victor Frankenstein's perfectionist obsessions in relation to human anatomy, when he began his investigations into the nature of life.

Origin anatomy

(1300-1400) Late Latin anatomia “cutting up a body”, from Greek anatome, from anatemnein “to cut up”

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