英语词汇“railway library”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

Railway Library n. (also with lower-case initials) now historical a series of books published in cheap editions intended to be suitable for reading on a train journey.

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1849 Times 13 Aug. 10/2 (advt.) Amusement while travelling—Publishing monthly, one shilling each, the Railway Library.

1952 J. W. Dodds Age of Paradox 374 Routledge launched his Railway Library—novels by Cooper, James, Hawthorne.

1953 H. T. Tuckerman Month in Eng. ix. 233 Cheap literature is yet a novelty in England; it properly began with the railway libraries.

2002 Observer (Nexis) 10 Mar. (Review section) 15 The thin, balding 23-year-old..was instantly hailed as ‘greater than Dickens’ on the strength of his Indian Railway Library stories.

单词	railway library
释义	> as lemmas Railway Library Railway Library n. (also with lower-case initials) now historical a series of books published in cheap editions intended to be suitable for reading on a train journey. ΚΠ 1849 Times 13 Aug. 10/2 (advt.) Amusement while travelling—Publishing monthly, one shilling each, the Railway Library. 1952 J. W. Dodds Age of Paradox 374 Routledge launched his Railway Library—novels by Cooper, James, Hawthorne. 1953 H. T. Tuckerman Month in Eng. ix. 233 Cheap literature is yet a novelty in England; it properly began with the railway libraries. 2002 Observer (Nexis) 10 Mar. (Review section) 15 The thin, balding 23-year-old..was instantly hailed as ‘greater than Dickens’ on the strength of his Indian Railway Library stories. extracted from railwayn. < as lemmas
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