| 单词 | novel |
| 释义 | novel (once / 96 pages) 1n 2adj If something is so new and original that it's never been seen, used or even thought of before, call it novel. The noun novel describes a book-length work of fiction. New and novel come from the same Indo-European root but by different paths. Whereas new is a Germanic word coming from Old English, novel is based on Latin novellus "new, young, fresh." If something is novel, it is new but also original, fresh and unique. Companies are always looking for that novel idea that will earn them millions and skydiving is a novel experience, especially if you're not adventurous. WORD FAMILYnovel: novelette, novelise, novelist, novelly, novels+/novelette: novelettes/novelise: novelisation, novelised/novelist: novelists USAGE EXAMPLESEmily Blunt stars as Rachel, a divorced alcoholic who becomes an unreliable and unlikely detective in this adaptation of Paula Hawkins’s best-selling novel. New York Times(Jan 03, 2017) This timely novel captures every character in the worst light, and the grudge matches among Brooklyn’s liberal parentocracy are nastier than any playground brawl. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) He published his first novel, A Painter of our Time, in 1958. The Guardian(Jan 02, 2017) 1 1n an extended fictional work in prose; usually in the form of a story Hypo|Hyper detective novel, mystery novel novel in which the reader is challenged to solve a puzzle before the detective explains it at the end dime novel, penny dreadfula melodramatic paperback novel novelette, novellaa short novel roman a clefa novel in which actual persons and events are disguised as fictional characters romancea novel dealing with idealized events remote from everyday life roman fleuvea French novel in the form of a long chronicle of a family or other social group Gothic romancea romance that deals with desolate and mysterious and grotesque events bodice rippera romantic novel containing scenes in which the heroine is sexually violated fiction a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact 2n a printed and bound book that is an extended work of fiction 2his bookcases were filled with nothing but novels he burned all the novels Hyper book, volume physical objects consisting of a number of pages bound together 1adj original and of a kind not seen before the computer produced a completely novel proof of a well-known theorem Syn fresh, new original being or productive of something fresh and unusual; or being as first made or thought of 2adj pleasantly new or different Syn refreshing new not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered |
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