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单词 taxidermy
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Definition of taxidermy in English:

taxidermy

noun ˈtaksɪˌdəːmiˈtæksəˌdərmi
mass noun
  • The art of preparing, stuffing, and mounting the skins of animals with lifelike effect.

    动物标本剥制术

    Example sentencesExamples
    • She once explained her passion for taxidermy by saying: ‘You get an animal that's blasted and shot up, and you think, how on earth am I going to fix this?’
    • That direction converges at the New York Museum of Natural History where dioramas and taxidermy reconfigure notions of exhibition, eugenics and conservation.
    • Not long ago, she began photographing the Peabody Museum's taxidermy collection.
    • A Case of Curiosities is devoted to the art of taxidermy, decorative, restorative and anthropomorphic.
    • Besides badminton, sister pursuits of poetry composition today might include butterfly collecting, taxidermy, face painting and spelunking.
    • But, thanks to Heaney's artistic taxidermy, the story and all it symbolizes will endure well into the new millennium.
    • Among other works evocative of a colonial place and time was Paris-based Huang Yong Ping's taxidermy representation of an event involving a hunting elephant besieged by an enraged tiger.
    • For the animal parts, she worked from taxidermy specimens.
    • There will also be a show of local crafts including fretwork, crystal glass, embroidery, dancing costumes, place mats, potted plants, flowers, and taxidermy.
    • It is not known whether John Gould was instructed in taxidermy or self-taught, but his earliest bird specimens showed great skill in preparation.
    • Scriver's success in sculpting animal forms for his taxidermy work encouraged the artist to pursue more traditional forms of sculpture.
    • Stuffing, inevitably, was something that Davis was pretty familiar with, for in what he quaintly refers to as his ‘downtime’, he likes nothing more than to pootle away at his taxidermy.
    • The gamekeeper, Stephane - played by Denis Lavant - is interested in trapping and taxidermy.
    • At McCallie Military School he practised amateur taxidermy and grew lawn grass in his bedroom; he was expelled from Brown University after being caught with a woman in his rooms.
    • Gould saw an opportunity and demonstrated an immediate aptitude for the art of taxidermy.
    • Back in the 1800's, Mr. Potter (I'n hoping he's not relation to Beatrix because that would be way too creepy) took taxidermy to a new level.
    • We do taxidermy, which means we arrange skin; we try to put the appearance of life back into what was destroyed in the hunt.
    • The process of taxidermy sees the skin of an animal removed, preserved and arranged around a model of the original body.
    • Others have no stomach for killing, and practise taxidermy merely as an art.
    • Rather than ridicule taxidermy as barbaric or bizarre, Abecassis wisely chooses to let her subjects reveal themselves through their fastidious work habits and aesthetic concerns.

Derivatives

  • taxidermal

  • adjective taksɪˈdəːm(ə)lˌtæksəˈdərm(ə)l
    • In the taxidermal works, animals are placed in certain situations that are said to depict the human situation.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Now, breathing in the chill river spray, I wonder if the taxidermal specimen might be enough.
      • Back at Walton Hall he set grimly to work, applying his taxidermal brilliance to a hideous revenge.
      • The second exhibition with more than 370 taxidermal exhibits showcases birds from all around the world.
      • I've painted a backdrop and I have some taxidermal crows that I've mounted.
  • taxidermic

  • adjective taksɪˌˈdəːmɪk
    • The memoirs are far advanced beyond the taxidermic tributes of the nineteenth century, but the relationship between the articles and the memoirs is uneasy.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • But Carlee Fernandez's manipulations of taxidermic animals stopped me in my gallery-going tracks.
      • To test effects of predation risk on incubation behavior, we presented a taxidermic model of a common nest predator.
      • Of course, bidders also can vie for the wacky, from taxidermic bats to debris from shipwrecked luxury liners.
      • He works almost entirely from a roomy house that sits on a wooded Oregon mountain top and is decorated with taxidermic specimens, including a piranha and a crocodile.
  • taxidermically

  • adverb
    • Instead of dunking it in formaldehyde or what-have-you like the other unfortunate fetuses, it had been taxidermically mounted and stuffed like a wild animal.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • This is a painting of actual objects in Freud's studio, and the zebra's colors in reality were taxidermically correct.
      • Along the street, a gift shop, with its huge taxidermically stuffed moose head with a full rack of antlers that sits in the window, beckoned us to enter.
      • Also provided are taxidermically prepared fish wherein the fish head is prepared by the foregoing processes.
      • Inside were taxidermically preserved specimens of a hummingbird, snake, bat, lizard, frog, and praying mantis.
      • We also presented a taxidermically mounted wallaby to quantify the response to a nonpredatory, familiar vertebrate.

Origin

Early 19th century: from Greek taxis 'arrangement' + derma 'skin'.

Definition of taxidermy in US English:

taxidermy

nounˈtaksəˌdərmēˈtæksəˌdərmi
  • The art of preparing, stuffing, and mounting the skins of animals with lifelike effect.

    动物标本剥制术

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The gamekeeper, Stephane - played by Denis Lavant - is interested in trapping and taxidermy.
    • She once explained her passion for taxidermy by saying: ‘You get an animal that's blasted and shot up, and you think, how on earth am I going to fix this?’
    • We do taxidermy, which means we arrange skin; we try to put the appearance of life back into what was destroyed in the hunt.
    • That direction converges at the New York Museum of Natural History where dioramas and taxidermy reconfigure notions of exhibition, eugenics and conservation.
    • Back in the 1800's, Mr. Potter (I'n hoping he's not relation to Beatrix because that would be way too creepy) took taxidermy to a new level.
    • Rather than ridicule taxidermy as barbaric or bizarre, Abecassis wisely chooses to let her subjects reveal themselves through their fastidious work habits and aesthetic concerns.
    • Among other works evocative of a colonial place and time was Paris-based Huang Yong Ping's taxidermy representation of an event involving a hunting elephant besieged by an enraged tiger.
    • Others have no stomach for killing, and practise taxidermy merely as an art.
    • But, thanks to Heaney's artistic taxidermy, the story and all it symbolizes will endure well into the new millennium.
    • Gould saw an opportunity and demonstrated an immediate aptitude for the art of taxidermy.
    • The process of taxidermy sees the skin of an animal removed, preserved and arranged around a model of the original body.
    • Stuffing, inevitably, was something that Davis was pretty familiar with, for in what he quaintly refers to as his ‘downtime’, he likes nothing more than to pootle away at his taxidermy.
    • A Case of Curiosities is devoted to the art of taxidermy, decorative, restorative and anthropomorphic.
    • For the animal parts, she worked from taxidermy specimens.
    • There will also be a show of local crafts including fretwork, crystal glass, embroidery, dancing costumes, place mats, potted plants, flowers, and taxidermy.
    • Besides badminton, sister pursuits of poetry composition today might include butterfly collecting, taxidermy, face painting and spelunking.
    • Not long ago, she began photographing the Peabody Museum's taxidermy collection.
    • It is not known whether John Gould was instructed in taxidermy or self-taught, but his earliest bird specimens showed great skill in preparation.
    • Scriver's success in sculpting animal forms for his taxidermy work encouraged the artist to pursue more traditional forms of sculpture.
    • At McCallie Military School he practised amateur taxidermy and grew lawn grass in his bedroom; he was expelled from Brown University after being caught with a woman in his rooms.

Origin

Early 19th century: from Greek taxis ‘arrangement’ + derma ‘skin’.

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