| 单词 | bestiary |
| 例句 | I suggest the need for a new bestiary, to take the place of the old ones. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The mythical animals catalogued in the bestiaries of the world seem, at a casual glance, nothing but exotic nonsense. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The meaning of these stories may be basically the same as the meaning of a medieval bestiary. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It is perhaps this characteristic that makes the usual bestiary so outlandish to the twentieth-century mind. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Jorge Borges, in his recent bestiary of mythical creatures, notes that the idea of round beasts was imagined by many speculative minds, and Johannes Kepler once argued that the earth itself is such a being. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z In this sense, bestiaries are part of our inheritance. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z However, a closer examination of Muggle bestiaries of that period demonstrates that most magical beasts either escaped Muggle notice completely or were mistaken for something else. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I returned to the table and flipped through the children’s book again before abandoning it for the bestiary. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z But like the creatures in Jorge Luis Borges’s “The Book of Imaginary Beings,” Mr. Pesce’s expanding bestiary remains as fresh and untamed — and the messages as relevant — as when he first announced his gentle manifesto. Gaetano Pesce: ‘One-of-a-Kind Iconic Works, 1967-2015’ 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z The show’s bestiary also includes an elegant Leonard Baskin crow and a somewhat ominous kangaroo, by veteran D.C. painter Joe White. In the galleries: Mapmaker Michael Francis Reagan goes bold in exhibit at Gallery A Perhaps you’re familiar with Ramparts magazine’s bestiaries, which lampooned the political follies of the 1960s, or “Sorel’s Unfamiliar Quotations” in The Atlantic Monthly. The ‘Profusely Illustrated’ Life of Edward Sorel 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z Fantastical iron bestiaries and vines covered its products, from candlesticks to staircases. How Franklin Thwarted Counterfeiters 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z Even though its over-familiar bestiary, dungeons and city folk in need of favours are so routine they're almost invisible, taking on the game's battles involves a novel twist in the hired hands called pawns. This week's new games 2012-06-01T23:06:07Z A mammoth is the first of the 17 animals Elena Passarello thinks eloquently about in her bestiary of essays, “Animals Strike Curious Poses,” published earlier this year. When Woolly Mammoths Roamed the Earth 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z Leonardo's bestiary enlisted the partridge as a lesson in truth: "Although partridges steal one another's eggs, the young always return to their true parents." The Book of Barely Imagined Beings by Caspar Henderson - review 2012-12-25T07:00:15Z She is a magpie, plucking language from myriad arenas: bestiaries, business documents, tourist pamphlets. The Marianne Moore Revival 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z The cartoonish, sometimes possessed looks of his creatures recall imagery from Japanese mythology and medieval bestiaries. 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z Forming an attachment in your formative years to Dennis Wheatley and his bestiary of bogles and goblins leaves an imprint on your soul and makes you susceptible to conspiracy theories everywhere. Truly, fangs ain't what they used to be 2010-07-10T23:05:00Z Perhaps the Art Deco bestiary was a form of consolation for that loss. Art Review: ?Deco Japan: Shaping Art and Culture? at Japan Society 2012-03-22T20:20:17Z A dinner and performance that channel Jacques Derrida and a bestiary, a series of sound pieces at Rudolph Schindler's historic home in West Hollywood, and art made from Arabic and Farsi calligraphy. Datebook: Beastly dinner, calligraphy art, sonic pieces at Schindler 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z There are other similarities with the original bestiaries. The Book of Barely Imagined Beings by Caspar Henderson - review 2012-12-25T07:00:15Z Rats, too, enjoyed a rare status upgrade in the collective cultural bestiary around the time of a savvy fellow named Jack Black, who worked in 18th century London as a rat catcher. The Cutest Animal on Instagram Is Possibly in Your Trash Can 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z There were verses from the “Divine Comedy” and symbols of a medieval bestiary in the embroidery. Gucci Has a Rave in a Cemetery 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z Each concludes with a philosophical reflection, often related to humanity's impact on our fellow creatures, that takes the place of the medieval bestiary's "moral". The Book of Barely Imagined Beings by Caspar Henderson - review 2012-12-25T07:00:15Z Similarly, just outside this gallery, several vitrines almost seem like bestiaries, organized sometimes by material and sometimes by species. Art Review: ?The Dawn of Egyptian Art? at the Metropolitan Museum 2012-04-12T22:17:19Z Puncture the word “pretentious” and out scuttles a bestiary of class anxieties; fears about getting above your station, and policing those suspected of trying to migrate from their social background. In defence of pretentiousness | Dan Fox 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z Acts of conspicuous charity were plea-bargains supported by requiem masses or future memorials, before it was permitted to receive God's grace, or to face the fiendishly inventive demons of a Hieronymus Bosch bestiary. The Undiscovered Country: Journeys Among the Dead by Carl Watkins – review 2013-01-12T09:31:00Z Its lyrics form a bestiary: cattle, hog, bee and buffalo are all here, as well as the phrase “work’s calving increments and love’s coltish punch.” Music: He Can Sing It, if Not Speak It 2011-04-10T02:00:17Z They have led me to medieval bestiaries and heraldry, a rich source of inspiration. How I redesigned Noah's flood 2013-07-01T11:51:00Z In Feral, we find George Monbiot in gloomy mood, mourning the loss of the improbable bestiary that lies under Nelson's Column, and with it a world that was once rugged and wild and big. Feral: Searching for Enchantment on the Frontiers of Rewilding by George Monbiot – review 2013-05-24T06:30:12Z There was a full bestiary of horns out there, and drivers behind them. The Art of Summer: The Contrapuntal Sounds of Gridlock 2011-08-09T23:37:12Z Inspired by the Jorge Luis Borges book of the same name, it’s a musical depiction of a fantastic bestiary in 11 movements. A composer offers the field just what it needs 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z His widow, Helen, outlived him by three decades; she sorted and inventoried his sculptures and paintings and tended his bestiary of huge wooden animals. Antiques: A Sugar Baron’s Scattered Art Collection 2013-06-20T21:52:26Z Inspired by Jorge Luis Borges's Book of Imaginary Beings, he asked himself if it would be possible to create a modern bestiary that was populated not by fabled animals, but by real ones. The Book of Barely Imagined Beings by Caspar Henderson - review 2012-12-25T07:00:15Z The bestiary of acceptable species on which respectable researchers can experiment is expanding. Animals could hold the key to human longevity. Here's why 2022-08-20T04:00:00Z With terrifying beasts like the Demogorgon and the Mind Flayer, Stranger Things has slowly been building up an impressive bestiary of monsters. Stranger Things 4’s new monster is made with practical effects, some CG, and lots of lube 2022-05-28T04:00:00Z Neutrinos are, without question, the weirdest denizens of the vast and varied particle-physics bestiary: They come in three types, but somehow oscillate between these different forms as they travel. Troubled U.S. Neutrino Project Faces Uncertain Future–and Fresh Opportunities 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z “I have touched them, I have not only seen them in photos,” Zelaya said of his mental bestiary, as he flipped through an iPad of drawings at a restaurant in North Hollywood. A Disney animator draws on his Salvadoran boyhood of beauty and brutality 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z Poised between wild fantasy and thought experiment, Descartes’ demon is only the first of many such creatures to appear in Jimena Canales’s bestiary “Bedeviled: A Shadow History of Demons in Science.” Review | The shadowy spirits that helped advance science 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z The show then fans out beyond illuminated manuscripts to encompass the bestiary’s role in establishing a pervasive visual vocabulary in the medieval world. Review: Unicorns are just one of the wild rides in the Getty's marvelous 'Book of Beasts' 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z Medieval bestiaries were books that served as compendiums of creatures both fantastic and real. Datebook: Umar Rashid turns colonial histories upside down in paintings at VPAM 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z “It seems part of human nature to want to believe in the unbelievable: from the bestiaries and cabinets of curiosities of the medieval period onwards,” said Pottermore. JK Rowling to publish four short books on the history of magic 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z That may seem like a lot to pay for an old laptop riddle with malware, but Guo says he likes to think of the piece as “a kind of bestiary — a catalogue of historical threats.” A laptop filled with six of the world’s most dangerous viruses is on sale for more than $1 million 2019-05-25T04:00:00Z Despite the bestiary of creatures, “Tale of Tales” should not be mistaken for a pastoral idyll. Captain Marvel Saves a Movie 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z Here, reducing the medieval bestiary to a contemporary footnote makes for a listless conclusion to an otherwise strong and compelling show. Review: Unicorns are just one of the wild rides in the Getty's marvelous 'Book of Beasts' 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z And while this might contrast Bridle’s intended point, his bestiary of computing experiments is strangely inspiring. Today is World Book Day — here’s what we’re reading 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z For some of the new additions to the Monster Hunter bestiary, they likely wouldn’t exist at all if it weren’t for the shift to current generation consoles. How new technology helped make Monster Hunter World’s beasts even more terrifying 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z One Christmas, when I was about 8, I received a modern bestiary, a large photo-dense encyclopedia of animals. Letter of Recommendation: iNaturalist 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z As part of his grand project on behalf of Carnegie, Benedict set out to construct a bestiary of metabolic rates. When the Lab Rat Is a Snake 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z The purpose of animals in medieval bestiaries, for example, was to give us lessons in how to live. What Animals Taught Me About Being Human 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z Third in his bestiary are vulcans, who investigate politics with scientific objectivity, respect opposing points of view, and carefully adjust their opinions to the facts, which they seek out diligently. The Case Against Democracy 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z These days, central bankers are adding to a bestiary of exotic stimulus programs such as negative interest rates and bond-buying schemes. Bazookas! Sinks! Aggressive Doves! Nobody Loves Silly Metaphors More Than Central Bankers 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z In one, the Obama children play with an imagined White House bestiary in the East Wing. A former White House dog groomer gives up on her Presidential Pet Museum 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z The bestiary is meant to be engaging, and not just because the creatures are big and colorful. At the zoo, a lively plastic art show with a concrete agenda 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z The bestiaries tell us that the fox is cunning and deceitful: it plays dead to remind us that the Devil hides in plain sight. The Verge Review of Animals: the immortal jellyfish 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z When I was figuring out these characters, I basically went through a bestiary! Exclusive cover reveal: Meet the hat master 'Hippopotamister' 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z Scalia said other irreverent things as well, including calling the evolution of the dormant commerce clause a “bestiary” of ad hoc tests. Justice Scalia Is Right About Wynne 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z In the street-journalism bestiary, the ‘yacht paparazzi’ are a specialized sub-phylum known to rent inflatable boats and choppers to close in on their prey. Superyacht Refit Season: The Wildest Tenders and Toys 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z There is an entire bestiary of forgotten entertainers. Answer Man takes us to the night in 1956 when the D.C. vice squad busted the Coral Room nightclub 2015-01-10T05:00:00Z Elephants and rhinos are among the last survivors of a once rich bestiary of giants. Elizabeth Kolbert: How Terrorism Is Threatening African Elephants 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z Like some character from a medieval bestiary, the skunk cabbage melts through ice and snow — as if determined to show off its remarkable flowers. City Room: Early Bloomer, Aptly Named 2014-04-19T23:51:24Z The Higgs boson has surely been the most charismatic creature in the physics bestiary ever since scientist Leon Lederman dubbed it “the God particle.” Nobel committee’s ‘Rule of Three’ means some Higgs boson scientists were left out 2013-10-08T22:43:00Z From microscopic foraminifera to right whales, only evolution constrains this bestiary, and is clearly more accommodating than human minds. Summer books 2013-07-11T15:50:23.720Z “The Big, Bad Book of Beasts” is described as a modern-day bestiary, an updated version of those medieval encyclopedias that collected animal stories, both real and mythological. Modern-day bestiary looks at curiosities of the animal world 2013-06-03T19:50:19Z This most portmanteau-like of beasts, a chimerical escapee from a medieval bestiary, or an antediluvian throwback, seemed, like all such monsters, to shift shape with the changing times. Has the internet killed the Loch Ness monster? 2013-05-02T11:05:58Z In another page out of the medieval bestiary, the skunk cabbage has contractile roots. City Room: Early Bloomer, Aptly Named 2014-04-19T23:51:24Z The full-color Wizard’s Companion contains a full bestiary of all the creatures found in the game along with in-depth item descriptions of the other world’s items, spells and background of its rich history. Namco Bandai Responds To 'Ni No Kuni: Wrath Of The White Witch' Wizard's Edition Fiasco 2013-01-27T07:06:07Z The artist who illustrated the Anne Walshe*** bestiary in the early fifteenth century might have been able to find some images of elephants in older illustrated manuscripts or descriptions from recent travelers. The White Elephant of Rucheni 2011-11-22T18:45:02.247Z Because of the midblock location, these two buildings are off the radar, which makes their stone bestiary all that much more entrancing. | Upper East Side: Dr. Dolittle?s Kind of Co-op 2011-07-14T22:02:06Z Then there were the queer bestiaries of his own doctors, the early Mandevilles, the Presterjohns of the twelfth century, the Munchausens of all time. The Story of Rouen But it was not in the scriptorium nor was it in the bestiaries or the examples of his predecessors that he acquired his art. The Book-Hunter at Home The bestiaries relate many strange things of the elephant. Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries The accompanying, seven sentence description, uses information from the earlier bestiaries of Physiologus, Solinus, and St. Ambrose, all sources over a thousand years old at that time. The White Elephant of Rucheni 2011-11-22T18:45:02.247Z Some of the panels were circles, and they were filled in with coats-of-arms; some were squares and they contained a bestiary of that day. Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers The humans I see are dressed in unisex coveralls, with discreet comms on their wrists or collars, and they don't seem to notice that their city is become a bestiary. Home Again, Home Again The Mayas knew it; land forms camouflaged, star charts, airy bestiaries, eagle, lama, beastback mountain sides, white pebbled Milky Way, an ancestral footbridge. Deadly Pollen During the day I amuse myself by looking over bestiaries of the middle ages; looking up in the "authorities" all the most baroque animals. The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters Like most medieval bestiaries, his follows a classical canon of animals known to Roman writers. The White Elephant of Rucheni 2011-11-22T18:45:02.247Z In turn they drew after them strangers no one here had ever known before; the like of which Hyacinth, who knew his bestiary, had never seen even in a picture. Miscellaneous Studies; a series of essays VM/CMS officially supports a whole bestiary of virtual card readers, virtual printers, and other phantom devices; these are used to supply some of the same capabilities Unix gets from pipes and I/O redirection. The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 Under didactic literature we would include a large mass of writing not strictly to be called pure literature—sermons, homilies, chronicles, bestiaries, and chronologies. 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