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集句,摘录,组曲

资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Cento \Cen"to\, n.; pl. {Centos}. [L. cento a garment of several
   pieces sewed together, patchwork, a poem made up of various
   verses of another poem.]
   A literary or a musical composition formed by selections from
   different authors disposed in a new order.