2N-UNCOUNT (某一学科的)著述,文献,图书资料The literature on a particular subject of study is all the books and articles that have been published about it. (某一学科的)著述,文献,图书资料
The literature on immigration policy is almost unrelievedly critical of the state. [+ on]
关于移民政策方面的著述几乎总是会一成不变地批评政府。
This work is documented in the scientific literature.
这一著作被列为科学文献。
3N-UNCOUNT 印刷品;宣传品Literature is written information produced by people who want to sell you something or give you advice. 印刷品;宣传品
I am sending you literature from two other companies that provide a similar service. [+ from]
我把另外两家提供类似服务的公司的宣传资料发给你。
Some companies have toned down the claims on their promotional literature.
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literatureHenry JamesHawthorne
Remarks are not literatureGloria SteinemAutobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about children; life is the other way aroundDavid LodgeThe British Museum is Falling Down
Literature is news that STAYS newsEzra PoundABC of Reading
Literature is a luxury. Fiction is a necessityG.K. ChestertonThe Defendant
Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heartSalman Rushdie
Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very deadSinclair LewisThe American Fear of Literature
When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a penSamuel LoverHandy Andy