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单词 flyleaf
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Definition of flyleaf in English:

flyleaf

nounPlural flyleavesˈflʌɪliːfˈflaɪˌlif
  • A blank page at the beginning or end of a book.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • This begins to explain why, on the flyleaves of many books by internationally known Caribbean authors, it is not uncommon to find a dedication to Henry Swanzy.
    • He reread, as he read, with obsessed intentness, filling flyleaves with pencilled codes that helped him retrieve any beauty, any bathos.
    • You may be tempted to steal a glance inside the flyleaf of the book jacket and study the black-and-white photograph of the writer.
    • My daughter Debbie gave me Bridget Jones' Diary, and she wrote on the flyleaf, ‘I'm so glad you're not like Bridget Jones's mother’.
    • When he peeked inside at the flyleaf he saw the simpering face, the tuft of copper hair that screamed ‘Tintin ‘, the shifty eyes that looked out through a pair of tortoise-shell glasses.’
    • O'Neill's own photograph on the flyleaf of the book shrieks gravitas, but in real life he's a charmer.
    • Corresponding to these marks are five small actual holes piercing the thickness of the paper cover to reveal glints of the flyleaf beneath.
    • Readers writing in books usually takes the form of notes in the side margins of a book, though there are those who will scribble on the flyleaf or fill up the endpapers.
    • Can you be sure that there isn't a fond inscription written inside the flyleaf of the book your aunt gave you last December, which you are now palming off on your friend?
    • Yet the flyleaf describes this book as a ‘haunting memoir [that] weaves together the life of a mother and daughter caught in the web of that mother's ambition.’
    • In his will, Michele d' Alessio stipulated that any unbound volumes should be bound, and that each book should be annotated on its flyleaf with his name as donor.
    • Again, even before the title page and immediately following the flyleaf, there is a list of ‘Style and usage labels’.
    • Instead, there are hundreds of strips, scraps, paste-downs, and flyleaves to be found, matched, deciphered, and transcribed.
    • The copy was presented by the author to Claudio Gremese, a witness in this case, on 27 April 1992, shortly before the priority date of the patent, and its flyleaf is inscribed accordingly…
    • In fact all photographs of the author in the flyleaves of books in his lengthy series are ambiguous.
    • With these lines from Rudyard Kipling's poem on the flyleaf, begins one of the most exciting, thrilling and disturbing novels about war.
    • You may find on the flyleaf the signature of ‘Col X’ with the date, ‘2 Nov 1933’.
    • Following the flyleaf advertisements on the books became a great way to find other gay male pulps.
    • Digging a little farther down in the litter of items at my feet, I discovered a first-edition KKK ritual with Z.'s name written on the flyleaf.
    • The flyleaf gives no biography or history on the author and I must admit a net search turned up only the review book itself, so I am led to believe that this may have been his first published effort.
    Synonyms
    page, sheet, folio
 
 

Definition of flyleaf in US English:

flyleaf

nounˈflīˌlēfˈflaɪˌlif
  • A blank page at the beginning or end of a book.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • When he peeked inside at the flyleaf he saw the simpering face, the tuft of copper hair that screamed ‘Tintin ‘, the shifty eyes that looked out through a pair of tortoise-shell glasses.’
    • Following the flyleaf advertisements on the books became a great way to find other gay male pulps.
    • The copy was presented by the author to Claudio Gremese, a witness in this case, on 27 April 1992, shortly before the priority date of the patent, and its flyleaf is inscribed accordingly…
    • This begins to explain why, on the flyleaves of many books by internationally known Caribbean authors, it is not uncommon to find a dedication to Henry Swanzy.
    • O'Neill's own photograph on the flyleaf of the book shrieks gravitas, but in real life he's a charmer.
    • You may be tempted to steal a glance inside the flyleaf of the book jacket and study the black-and-white photograph of the writer.
    • Yet the flyleaf describes this book as a ‘haunting memoir [that] weaves together the life of a mother and daughter caught in the web of that mother's ambition.’
    • Again, even before the title page and immediately following the flyleaf, there is a list of ‘Style and usage labels’.
    • My daughter Debbie gave me Bridget Jones' Diary, and she wrote on the flyleaf, ‘I'm so glad you're not like Bridget Jones's mother’.
    • The flyleaf gives no biography or history on the author and I must admit a net search turned up only the review book itself, so I am led to believe that this may have been his first published effort.
    • In fact all photographs of the author in the flyleaves of books in his lengthy series are ambiguous.
    • Corresponding to these marks are five small actual holes piercing the thickness of the paper cover to reveal glints of the flyleaf beneath.
    • In his will, Michele d' Alessio stipulated that any unbound volumes should be bound, and that each book should be annotated on its flyleaf with his name as donor.
    • He reread, as he read, with obsessed intentness, filling flyleaves with pencilled codes that helped him retrieve any beauty, any bathos.
    • With these lines from Rudyard Kipling's poem on the flyleaf, begins one of the most exciting, thrilling and disturbing novels about war.
    • Instead, there are hundreds of strips, scraps, paste-downs, and flyleaves to be found, matched, deciphered, and transcribed.
    • Readers writing in books usually takes the form of notes in the side margins of a book, though there are those who will scribble on the flyleaf or fill up the endpapers.
    • Can you be sure that there isn't a fond inscription written inside the flyleaf of the book your aunt gave you last December, which you are now palming off on your friend?
    • Digging a little farther down in the litter of items at my feet, I discovered a first-edition KKK ritual with Z.'s name written on the flyleaf.
    • You may find on the flyleaf the signature of ‘Col X’ with the date, ‘2 Nov 1933’.
    Synonyms
    page, sheet, folio
 
 
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