encyclopaedia
n. 百科全書
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書。
An encyclopaedia contains a lot of knowledge.
百科全書包含很多知識.
Melville incorporated in " Moby Dick " an exhaustive encyclopaedia of whaling lore.
梅爾維爾在《白鯨 》 中彙集了各種捕鯨知識.
This is an encyclopaedia of philosophy.
這是本哲學百科全書.
I ought to have bought that encyclopaedia, but now it's not available.
([那時]我應該買下那套百科全書的, 可是現在卻買不到了.)[有悔恨之意. ].