| 单词 | set text |
| 释义 | > as lemmasset text a. Of a task, a subject of study or discourse: Imposed or prescribed. Now rare except in set book: a book ‘set’ or prescribed as one of the subjects; also set text. ΘΚΠ society > authority > command > command or bidding > [adjective] > imposing > imposed seta1300 joinedc1475 imposed1630 society > authority > subjection > obedience > compulsion > [adjective] > imposed seta1300 joinedc1475 society > education > learning > study > subject or object of study > [noun] > required reading > prescribed book set book1888 a1300 Cursor Mundi 26270 Quen nede es for to slak þe sett penance þat es for plight. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 66 When you are to talk on a Set Subject. 1863 W. C. Baldwin Afr. Hunting i. 2 My natural aversion to any set task. 1888 Daily News 5 Nov. 5/2 Set books are for a Tripos the exception rather than the rule. 1966 N. Nicolson in H. Nicolson Diaries & Lett. (1966) 28 He read..the whole of Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes because it was my set-book at school. 1968 Listener 22 Aug. 244/3 By the end of 1967, however, it had sold more than 15,000 copies, mainly because a few enterprising examining bodies had chosen it as a set book for A-level GCE. 1982 Times 12 Aug. 8/3 Mrs. Thatcher's Family Policy Committee has been given a set text in the form of a paper by the recently appointed head of the Downing Street Policy Unit. < as lemmas |
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