| 单词 | holiday reading |
| 释义 | > as lemmasholiday reading holiday reading n. material that is read (or is suitable for reading) on holiday; esp. works of fiction that offer light diversion rather than intellectual stimulation.Not common in North American usage. ΚΠ 1822 New Monthly Mag. July 177 The virtues of a barbarian age, and the fine qualities that display themselves in times of violence and disorder, make excellent materiel for romances and holiday reading. 1907 Rev. of Reviews Aug. 178/1 The question of holiday-reading is not always one of easy solution... The general impression is, no doubt, that holiday-makers prefer light reading which will help to pass an idle hour. 1987 Guardian 17 June 9/7 I like Hotel Romantika and Other Stories..very much although it's heavily cliched in places and what my mother would call ‘pap’ and what I call ‘holiday reading’. 2015 Telegraph (Nexis) 9 Aug. (Lifestyle section) When it comes to holiday reading,..we take Proust, but end up gripped by a dog-eared copy of Jilly Cooper's Riders that someone has left in the hotel ‘library’. < as lemmas |
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