catalogue

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cat·a·logue1 (also catalog American English) /ˈkætəlɒɡ $ -lɒːɡ, -lɑːɡ/ W3 noun [countableC]

1 TCNa complete list of things that you can look at, buy, or use, for example in a library or at an art show 目录

a mail order catalog

邮购商品目录

an online catalogue

网上目录

2 catalogue of mistakes/crimes/cruelty etc SERIESa series of mistakes, crimes etc that happen one after the other and never seem to stop 一连串的错误/罪案/暴行等

a catalogue of terrorist crimes

接二连三的恐怖主义罪行

an appalling catalogue of errors

令人震惊的一连串错误

Examples from the Corpus

catalogue• Retrospective conversion of earlier catalogue records is under way.• There's an illustrated catalogue with essays by Paolo Baldacci and Ronny Cohen.• The fully illustrated catalogue acknowledges the cooperation of Galerie Jan Krugier of Geneva.• It can be seen immediately that, in library terms, the 48K microcomputer could not replace the library catalogue.• There is a new catalogue of all the books in the library.• These thinking qualities are retained long after the catalogue of facts, so long over-valued by some teachers, has been forgotten.• The third element in the catalogue of community care problems is that of the provision of services itself.• As said before, there is no complete list of these items, no visual catalogue.

catalogue2 (also catalog American English) verb [transitiveT]

1 LISTto make a complete list of all the things in a group 为…编目录，把…列入目录中

The manuscripts have never been systematically catalogued.

一直没有系统地为这些手稿编过目录。

2 LISTto list all the things that are connected with a particular person, event, plan etc 一一列出

The report catalogued numerous dangerous work practices.

这份报告列出了许多危险的作业方法。

Examples from the Corpus

catalogue• We are still waiting for all the paintings to be identified and catalogued.• Difficulties can be many, at the top of the list being the number of items to be catalogued.• To catalogue and prepare a major sale will take months.• William glanced down at the list of stock he was cataloguing and sighed.• His background has been catalogued on many occasions and trawled by the man himself with the single-mindedness which characterizes all his causes.• None of these collections was well catalogued or well arranged by present-day standards, and none was accessible to the general public.• LeroiGourhan and his followers have catalogued some 400 of them.• They want some one to catalogue the collection.

From Longman Business Dictionary