corpus
/ˈkɔːpəs/noun
(pl. corpora 或 corpuses)
1
- a collection of written texts, especially the entire works of a particular author or a body of writing on a particular subject文集; 全集：
the Darwinian corpus
达尔文全集。
1.1
- a collection of written or spoken material in machine-readable form, assembled for the purpose of studying linguistic structures, frequencies, etc语料库。
2
- Anatomy the main body or mass of a structure【剖】体; 身体。
2.1
- the central part of the stomach, between the fundus and the antrum胃体。
词源
late Middle English (denoting a human or animal body)： from Latin, literally 'body'. Sense 1 dates from the early 18th cent.