释义 |
bookishbook‧ish /ˈbʊkɪʃ/ adjective - bookish language
- Bill was the studious, bookish type.
- All the witches who'd lived in her cottage were bookish types.
- Anthony Hopkins plays a bookish billionaire with a head full of unused facts.
- Arthur Frommer is a bookish sort of guy.
- Fanshawe was not a bookish child, however.
- It should surely be essential for every school, library and bookish home in the country.
- Nor is he an old-fashioned, bookish poet with antiquarian tendencies like Tennyson.
- This is a further indication of the influence of bookish language on the spoken style.
someone who is bookish is more interested in reading and studying than in sports or other activities: a shy bookish man |