| 单词 | bookworm |
| 释义 | bookworm (once / 15291 pages) n A bookworm is someone who loves to read. If you're a true bookworm, you'd rather spend Friday nights on the couch with a book than out at a party. Some people are bookworms from the moment they first learn to read, while others grow into their love of books and reading after encountering a particularly wonderful book. Even people who didn't love the "Harry Potter" series of books mostly concede that they created a whole generation of bookworms. The word bookworm originally referred to a variety of insects that infest and eat paper, including the pages of books. WORD FAMILYbookworm: bookworms USAGE EXAMPLESShe was a self-confessed bookworm as a child reading poetry and classical literature. BBC(Dec 27, 2016) “My family called me ‘the bookworm’ and they didn’t say it in a nice way. Los Angeles Times(Dec 27, 2016) July 17 An English bookworm who in 2012 expressed her love for the Twitter account manager of a Waterstones bookstore in London marries him. Washington Post(Nov 17, 2016) 1n someone who spends a great deal of time reading Hyper reader a person who enjoys reading 2n a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit Syn|Hypo|Hyper pedant, scholastic purist someone who insists on great precision and correctness (especially in the use of words) bookman, scholar, scholarly person, student a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines |
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