card catalog

基本解释

C. Consult the card catalog in the library to locate books - record author, title, publisher, date of publication and call number.
借助图书馆的卡片目录找出图书的所在地，并记下图书的作者，标题，出版社，出版日期和编目号码。
A registry is like a library card catalog, used for recording the arrival of new books and other media, and looking up existing items.
注册中心就像一个图书馆的卡片目录，用来记录新书和其他媒体的入库情况并查找现有的项目。
Not too long ago, scientists had to hoof it to the library to review the literature. And they had to flip through a card catalog to find that dusty old volume with the article they wanted.
不久以前，科学家还不得不亲自到图书馆去查阅文献，在那里他们只能一张张翻阅目录索引以便从各种满是灰尘的合订卷中找到他们需要的文章。

Considering ditching the greeting card catalog and writing a nice check instead.
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It has visual grace notes like a proprietary page-turning animation and a neat little trick in which a virtual catalog card whirls and tumbles its way down into the download queue.
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