a collection of written texts, especially the entire works of a particular author or a body of writing on a particular subject 文集;(尤指同一作者或某一专题的)全集 the Darwinian corpus. 达尔文全集。 ■a collection of written or spoken material in machine-readable form, assembled for the purpose of studying linguistic structures, frequencies, etc (用于研究,可机读的)资料;素材
(Anatomy)the main body or mass of a structure (剖)体;身体 ■the central part of the stomach, between the fundus and the antrum 胃体
语源
late Middle English (denoting a human or animal body): from Latin, literally body'. Sense 1 dates from the early 18th cent