stamp collecting

基本解释

My interest in stamp collecting dated from my schooldays.
我从学生时代就开始爱好集邮。
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has taken up stamp collecting to cultivate a calmer image, foreign media said recently.
据外国媒体近日报道，法国总统萨科齐为打造沉稳领导人形象而培养集邮爱好。
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I took a liking to stamp collecting three years ago.
三年前我喜欢上了集邮.

As for acquisitions, the old stamp collecting, one-of-everything mentality has given way to a less-is-more approach.
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With the passing of stamp and butterfly collecting into the obscurest realms of irredeemable geekdom, accumulating (and drinking) rare, unusual and generally very old whiskies has emerged as one of the more surprising--if less than headline-generating--trends of the 21st century.
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