a published collection of poems or other pieces of writing 选集 ■a similar collection of songs or musical compositions issued in one album 歌曲选集
派生 anthologist noun 语源
mid 17th cent.: via French or medieval Latin from Greek anthologia, from anthos 'flower' + -logia 'collection' (from legein 'gather'). In Greek, the word originally denoted a collection of the ‘flowers’ of verse, i.e. small choice poems or epigrams, by various authors