英语翻译“Museum”is a slippery word.It first meant (in Greek) any

英语翻译
“Museum”is a slippery word.It first meant (in Greek) anything consecrated to the Muses:a hill,a shrine,a garden,a festival or even a textbook.Both Plato?s Academy and Aristotle?s Lyceum had a mouseion,a muses?shrine.Although the Greeks already collected detached works of art,many temples—notably that of Hera at Olympia (before which the Olympic flame is still lit)—had collections of objects,some of which were works of art by well?known masters,while paintings and sculptures in the Alexandrian Museum were incidental to its main purpose.
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“博物馆”像语言一般不断更新着它的定义.最先,（在希腊）博物馆是代表一切为缪斯供奉的事物：一座山,一方祠堂,一片园林,一个节日,有时甚至是一本书.柏拉图建立的学院和亚里士多德的演讲学会中都有一个mouseion（缪斯庙）,也就是缪斯神社.尽管希腊人已经保留了很多超凡脱俗的艺术作品,在别的许多神庙----其中典型便是赫拉在奥林匹亚的神庙(在此之前奥运圣火已经点燃)----也有收藏许多这样的艺术品,其中部分艺术作品更是来自某些著名的大师级艺术家,而亚历山大博物馆收藏的绘画和雕塑则最体现了其作为收藏品的主要目的.
感觉不是很完美,将就了