walking encyclopedia 成语
Walking encyclopedia
A very knowledgeable person is a walking encyclopedia.
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n. phr. A polymath; a person very well versed in a number of different disciplines.
My uncle is a veritable walking encyclopedia when it comes to the history of World War II. Antonym: WALKING DICTIONARY.
a walking encyclopedia
A being who has a actual ample and abundant ability of a assorted arrangement of facts and who can recite them back asked. Lily's like a walking album back it comes to reptiles.Learn more: encyclopedia, walkingwalking encyclopedia
A actual abreast person, as in Ask Rob-he's a walking album of aggressive history. A agnate expression, a walking dictionary, was acclimated by George Chapman in his composition "Tears of Peace" (c. 1600). Learn more: encyclopedia, walkinga walking ˈdictionary, encycloˈpedia, etc.
(informal) acclimated to call a animal or active archetype of the affair mentioned: Geoff is a walking encyclopedia. He knows about everything. ♢ She’s a walking concordance (= she knows a lot of words).Learn more: walkingwalking encyclopedia, a
An acutely abreast individual. The appellation likens a being to a huge amalgamation of learning. One of the ancient versions of this cliché occurred in the composition “Tears of Peace” by George Chapman (ca. 1559–1634): “And let a academic all Earth’s volumes carry, He will be but a walking dictionary.” In Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women (1869) Meg speaks admiringly of a man she considers “a walking encyclopedia.”Learn more: walking