1 N-COUNT 书;书籍;本子;簿册 A
book is a number of pieces of paper, usually with words printed on them, which are fastened together and fixed inside a cover of stronger paper or cardboard. Books contain information, stories, or poetry, for example.
书;书籍;本子;簿册 -
His eighth book came out earlier this year and was an instant best-seller.
他的第8本书在今年早些时候面世,迅速成为了畅销书。
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'Robinson Crusoe' is one of the most famous books in the world.
《鲁宾逊漂流记》是一本世界名著。
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...the author of a book on politics.
一本政治著作的作者
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...a book about witches.
一本关于女巫的书
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...a new book by Rosella Brown.
罗塞拉·布朗的一本新书
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...reference books.
参考书
2 N-COUNT 一册(邮票);一纸板(火柴);一本(票券) A
book of something such as stamps, matches, or tickets is a small number of them fastened together between thin cardboard covers.
一册(邮票);一纸板(火柴);一本(票券) 3 VERB 订,预订(旅馆房间、票等) When you
book something such as a hotel room or a ticket, you arrange to have it or use it at a particular time.
订,预订(旅馆房间、票等) -
British officials have booked hotel rooms for the women and children. [VERB noun]
英国官员已为妇女和儿童预订了宾馆房间。
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Laurie revealed she had booked herself a flight home last night. [VERB noun noun]
劳丽透露她昨晚已为自己预订了返家的机票。
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...three-star restaurants that are normally booked for months in advance. [VERB-ed]
通常需提前数月预订的三星级饭店
4 N-PLURAL (公司或组织机构的)账册,账簿,名册 A company's or organization's
books are its records of money that has been spent and earned or of the names of people who belong to it.
(公司或组织机构的)账册,账簿,名册 [business] 5 VERB (足球裁判)记名警告(严重犯规的球员) When a referee
books a football player who has seriously broken the rules of the game, he or she officially writes down the player's name.
(足球裁判)记名警告(严重犯规的球员) 6 VERB (警察)把…记录在案,给…做笔录 When a police officer
books someone, he or she officially records their name and the offence that they may be charged with.
(警察)把…记录在案,给…做笔录 7 N-COUNT (《圣经》等长篇作品的)篇,卷,书 In a very long written work such as the Bible, a
book is one of the sections into which it is divided.
(《圣经》等长篇作品的)篇,卷,书 9 PHRASE [verb-link PHRASE] 令人厌烦/令人满意 If you are
in someone's
bad books, they are annoyed with you. If you are
in their
good books, they are pleased with you.
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Sir John was definitely in the Treasury's bad books for incorrect thinking on economic prospects.
约翰爵士肯定不受财政部的待见,因为他对经济前景的预测并不准确。
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Right from my very first day I seemed to be in everyone's good books.
自打第一天起,我好像就和每个人都很合得来。
10 PHRASE 将…依法治罪;审讯;审问 If you
bring someone
to book, you punish them for an offence or make them explain their behaviour officially.
将…依法治罪;审讯;审问 11 PHRASE 完全不了解的人;一无所知的事物;谜 If you say that someone or something is a
closed book, you mean that you do not know anything about them.
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Frank Spriggs was a very able man but something of a closed book.
弗兰克·斯普里格斯是一个很有才干的人,但是有些让人捉摸不透。
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Economics was a closed book to him.
他对经济学一窍不通。
12 PHRASE (旅馆、餐馆、剧院或交通工具)被预订一空,满座,客满 If a hotel, restaurant, theatre, or transport service is
fully booked, or
booked solid, it is booked up.
(旅馆、餐馆、剧院或交通工具)被预订一空,满座,客满 13 PHRASE 依我看;根据我的观点 In my book means 'in my opinion' or 'according to my beliefs'.
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The greatest manager there has ever been, or ever will be in my book, is retiring.
这位迄今为止最杰出的,在我看来,也是后人无法超越的经理,就要退休了。
SYN in my opinion, to me, as far as I am concerned
14 PHRASE [VERB inflects] (当权者)对(违法者)从严惩罚 If someone in authority
throws the book at someone who has committed an offence, they give the offender the greatest punishment that they are allowed to.
(当权者)对(违法者)从严惩罚 15 to
cook the books→see: cook to take a leaf from someone's book
→see: leaf Quotations
A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life John Milton Areopagitica All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time John Ruskin Sesame and Lilies There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash Vladimir Nabokov All books are either dreams or swords,
You can cut, or you can drug, with words Amy Lowell Sword Blades and Poppy Seeds Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested Francis Bacon Essays The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries René Descartes Discourse on Method All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened Ernest Hemingway Books succeed,
And lives fail Elizabeth Barrett Browning Aurora Leigh Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't Julian Barnes Flaubert's Parrot Even bad books are books and therefore sacred Günter Grass The Tin Drum I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so Revd Sidney Smith A room without books is as a body without a soul John Lubbock When I am dead, I hope it may be said:
`His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.' Hilaire Belloc On His Books No furniture so charming as books Revd Sidney Smith Books will speak plain when counsellors blanch Francis Bacon Essays Of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh Bible: Ecclesiastes Word Partnership | Use book with: |
N. | address book, book award, children's book, book club, comic book, copy of a book, book cover, library book, phone book, book review, subject of a book, title of a book 1 |
ADJ. | latest/new/recent book 1 |
VERB. | publish a book, read a book, write a book 1 |
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