encyclopaedia
n. 百科全书
1. a reference work (often in several volumes) containing articles on various topics (often arranged in alphabetical order) dealing with the entire range of human knowledge or with some particular specialty
He was a walking encyclopaedia.
他是一部活的百科全书。
An encyclopaedia contains a lot of knowledge.
百科全书包含很多知识.
Melville incorporated in " Moby Dick " an exhaustive encyclopaedia of whaling lore.
梅尔维尔在《白鲸 》 中汇集了各种捕鲸知识.
This is an encyclopaedia of philosophy.
这是本哲学百科全书.
I ought to have bought that encyclopaedia, but now it's not available.
([那时]我应该买下那套百科全书的, 可是现在却买不到了.)[有悔恨之意. ].