cat·a·logue

noun

/ˈkætəlɒɡ/

/ˈkætəlɔːɡ/

(US English also catalog)

a complete list of items, for example of things that people can look at or buy目录；目录簿
- a mail-order catalogue (= a book showing goods for sale to be sent to people’s homes)邮购商品目录
- to consult the library catalogue查看图书馆目录
- An illustrated catalogue accompanies the exhibition.展览会有插图目录。
- Please take a look at our online catalogue.请阅览我们的在线目录。
see also back catalogue
Extra Examples
- More details are given in our catalogue.详情请参阅我们的目录。
- Send off for our illustrated catalogue of garden plants.来函索取园艺植物插图目录。
- The gallery produced a catalogue of young artists.美术馆制作了年轻艺术家的作品目录。
- She consulted the museum catalogue.她查看了博物馆的目录。
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
adjective
- colour/color
- illustrated
- mail-order
- …
verb + catalogue
- produce
- publish
- browse through
- …
preposition
- in a/the catalogue
a long series of things that happen (usually bad things)一连串（糟糕）事
- a catalogue of disasters/errors/misfortunes接二连三的灾难／错误／不幸
Extra Examples
- The commission reported a catalogue of errors that went right to the top of government.该委员会报告了一系列错误，这些错误直接上报到了政府高层。
- What followed was a whole catalogue of disasters.随之发生的是接二连三的灾难。
- What we have here is a catalogue of failure.我们这里有一个失败的目录。
- Child protection officers uncovered a catalogue of cruelty and abuse.儿童保护专员发现了一连串虐待儿童的事件。

Word Originlate Middle English: via Old French from late Latin catalogus, from Greek katalogos, from katalegein ‘pick out or enrol’.

cat·a·logue

verb

/ˈkætəlɒɡ/

/ˈkætəlɔːɡ/

(North American English also catalog)

Verb Forms

present simple I / you / we / they catalogue	/ˈkætəlɒɡ/ /ˈkætəlɔːɡ/
he / she / it catalogues	/ˈkætəlɒɡz/ /ˈkætəlɔːɡz/
past simple catalogued	/ˈkætəlɒɡd/ /ˈkætəlɔːɡd/
past participle catalogued	/ˈkætəlɒɡd/ /ˈkætəlɔːɡd/
-ing form cataloguing	/ˈkætəlɒɡɪŋ/ /ˈkætəlɔːɡɪŋ/

catalogue something to arrange a list of things in order in a catalogue; to record something in a catalogue列入目录；编入目录
- It took six years to catalogue all the paintings.花了六年时间才对所有画作进行编目。
- New books are catalogued on an electronic database.新书在电子数据库中编目。
Extra Examples
- She painstakingly catalogued all the photographs in the museum.她不辞劳苦地将博物馆里的所有照片编成目录。
- The collection had never been properly catalogued.这些收藏品从未恰当编目。
- The statue was catalogued as dating from the 13th century.该雕像的历史可追溯至 13 世纪。
catalogue something to give a list of things connected with a particular person, event, etc.记载，登记（某人、某事等的详情）
- Interviews with the refugees catalogue a history of discrimination and violence.对难民的采访记录下了一部歧视和暴力的历史。

Word Originlate Middle English: via Old French from late Latin catalogus, from Greek katalogos, from katalegein ‘pick out or enrol’.