单词 | book-bound |
释义 | > as lemmasbook-bound book-bound adj. (a) grounded (only) in books; (b) surrounded by books. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > [adjective] > filled or lined with voluminous1690 book-lined1809 book-walled1822 book-bound1839 book-filled1855 bookful1896 volumed1897 1839 Abstr. Mass. School Returns 1838–9 195 One idea, awakened in the mind of a child, is worth a hundred things mechanically worded into the memory, and this is not done by the book-bound teacher, who..just ‘asks a question’. 1863 J. C. Jeaffreson Sir Everard's Daughter xiii. 224 His little book-bound parlour. 1915 N. Shipman Under Crescent vi. iv. 259 ‘Le Roi est mort! vive le Roi!’ The cry echoes and re-echoes down the book-bound walls of history. 1997 D. Jacobson in Granta Spring 184 He despised..a sect which had come into existence precisely as an act of rebellion against the traditions of book-bound learning to which he attached so great an importance. < as lemmas |
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