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Here Mr. Ephraim Chambers was abbreviating two words camera obscura which is Latin for “darkened room.”
在这里,他使用了两个字的词汇camera obscura来表示,这两个词在拉丁语里“黑暗的屋子”的缩写。
vt. 缩写;使简短;(abbreviate的现在分词形式)
Here Mr. Ephraim Chambers was abbreviating two words camera obscura which is Latin for “darkened room.”
在这里,他使用了两个字的词汇camera obscura来表示,这两个词在拉丁语里“黑暗的屋子”的缩写。