corpus
corpus — 名詞
1. An organised electronic collection of authentic texts or speech recordings, used
語料庫
電子化語言資料庫，用於語言學研究
An organised electronic collection of authentic texts or speech recordings, used by language researchers to analyse word patterns and sentence structures.
The linguist used a million-word corpus of daily conversations to study how teenagers use slang.
那位語言學家用一個百萬詞的口語對話語料庫，研究青少年如何使用俚語。
corpus of + [type of text/speech] as a research tool
Imani built her own corpus from Taiwanese news articles to compare formal and informal vocabulary.
Imani 從臺灣的新聞文章中自行建立語料庫，以比較正式與非正式詞彙的用法。
Dictionary editors check a corpus of billions of words before adding new terms.
字典編輯者在收錄新詞之前，會先查閱數十億詞的語料庫。
Researchers at Tokyo University compiled a corpus of workplace emails to study communication patterns.
東京大學的研究人員彙整了一個職場電子郵件語料庫，用來研究溝通模式。
Tamar compared a corpus of British and American news articles to find spelling differences.
Tamar 比較了英國和美國新聞文章的語料庫，以找出拼寫上的差異。
- database
more general term for any organised data store; 'corpus' implies language data specifically
- text collection
explicitly describes written materials; less precise than 'corpus'
- archive
stresses historical preservation rather than analytical use
文法句型
a corpus of + [text type]
用法筆記
The plural form is corpora (the standard academic plural) or sometimes corpuses. Frequently appears in the compound noun 'corpus linguistics' to name the field of study.
常見錯誤
2. The complete writings of one author, or all the works on a single topic brought
文集；全集
某位作家或某主題的全部作品
The complete writings of one author, or all the works on a single topic brought together as a set.
Shirin is writing her thesis on the complete corpus of 20th-century Irish poetry.
Shirin 正在撰寫關於二十世紀愛爾蘭詩歌全集的論文。
corpus of + [topic/genre] for collected writings on a subject
The museum published a corpus of ancient Egyptian love songs found on papyrus fragments.
博物館出版了一部彙集於紙莎草殘片上發現的古埃及情歌文集。
The library's digital collection includes the entire corpus of Jane Austen's novels and letters.
圖書館的數位典藏包含了珍·奧斯汀所有小說與書信的完整文集。
Rodrigo's research focuses on the surviving corpus of medieval Welsh poetry.
Rodrigo 的研究聚焦於現存的中世紀威爾斯詩歌全集。
Scholars spent decades piecing together a reliable corpus of Sappho's surviving fragments.
學者們花費數十年拼湊出一部可靠的薩芙詩作殘篇全集。
- oeuvre
French loanword used only for one creator's entire output; more specific than 'corpus'
- body of work
more conversational equivalent; less formal than 'corpus'
- collected works
the most transparent synonym; often used in book titles
文法句型
a corpus of + [author/genre]
用法筆記
Often used in academic literary criticism. The word 'oeuvre' is a near-synonym but is used only for a single artist's complete body of work, not for a subject-based collection.
常見錯誤
3. The central or main mass of a body organ, as opposed to its outer covering, neck
主體
器官的主要部分
The central or main mass of a body organ, as opposed to its outer covering, neck, or other specialised regions.
In anatomy class, students learn that the corpus of the stomach produces digestive acid.
在解剖課上，學生學到胃的主體（胃體）負責分泌消化酸。
the corpus of + [organ] — the main functional region
The MRI scan showed a small cyst in the corpus of Kenji's pancreas.
核磁共振掃描顯示 Kenji 的胰臟主體有一個小囊腫。
Anatomy textbooks describe the corpus of the uterus as its thick central region.
解剖學教科書描述子宮的主體（子宮體）是其厚實的中央區域。
Dr. Anong noted that the tumour had grown in the corpus of the patient's bladder.
Anong 醫師指出腫瘤長在病人膀胱的主體部位。
The corpus callosum connects the brain's two halves using millions of nerve fibres.
胼胝體（corpus callosum）藉由數百萬條神經纖維連接大腦的左右半球。
文法句型
the corpus of + [organ]
corpus + [Latin anatomical term]
用法筆記
This sense appears most often in fixed anatomical compounds such as corpus callosum (the band connecting brain hemispheres), corpus luteum (a temporary gland in the ovary), and corpus cavernosum (spongy tissue in the penis). In general medical writing, the phrase 'body of the [organ]' is more common than 'corpus'.