| 释义 |
wordage|ˈwɜːdɪdʒ|
[f. word n. + -age.]
Words collectively; = verbiage 1. In recent use also, an amount of words written or spoken; the number of words in a document.
1829Westm. Rev. Apr. 417 The plates are..sufficient without all the wordage. 1858Arnot Laws from Heaven Ser. ii. 22 [The tongue] may revolve with the rapidity..of..machinery, throwing off..a continuous web of wordage. 1926Glasgow Herald 19 May 7/2 Managers of the great news agencies..have never placed upon the cables so large a wordage concerning any British domestic event. 1958Times 26 Aug. 5/7 Telegrams will carry a fixed charge irrespective of wordage. 1966Punch 21 Sept. 455/2 Obviously he took his correspondence as seriously as he took his Journals and his daily wordage of publishable prose. 1975G. Howell In Vogue 64/1 [Tallulah Bankhead] spoke seventy thousand words a day—the wordage of War and Peace over a weekend. 1985Univ. Cape Town Studies in English Feb. 61 Scientists and scholars who have published in abundance are actively solicited by editors, bookmen, and publishers for still more wordage to be put into print. |