单词 | storybook writer |
释义 | > as lemmasstorybook writer General attributive and objective, as storybook character, storybook writer, etc. ΚΠ 1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby liii. 530 None of your story-book writers will ever make as good a book as this, I warrant me. 1889 B. Gilman St. Theresa of Avila i. 6 Children are sometimes detected trying to imitate the doings of their favorite story-book characters. 1913 E. C. Bentley Trent's Last Case xv. 309 The national fondness for doing things in a story-book style. 1958 G. H. Hildreth Teaching Reading x. 199 Children who gain the reading technique through extensive chart work are prepared to go into easy story-book reading. 1986 E. E. M. Roberts Nonfiction for Children ii. 22 She created characters but did not concern herself with a setting or a plot, as a traditional storybook author might. 2012 Vanity Fair Nov. 167/1 It was as if one of those storybook fairies..had waved her wand over Miami. < as lemmas |
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