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单词 tome
释义 tome
\ˈtōm\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: Middle French or Latin; Middle French tome, from Latin tomus, from Greek tomos slice, section, roll of papyrus, tome, from temnein to cut; akin to Greek tendein to gnaw, Latin tondēre to shear, crop, Middle Irish tennaid he splits
1. : a volume forming part of a larger work
 < a history in ten tomes >
2. : book
 < over 259,000,000 copies of pocket-size tomes were printed — J.K.Hutchens >
especially : a large ponderous or a scholarly volume
 < heavy books of reference or other large tomes that must stand much wear — Edith Diehl >
 < a huge twenty-pound tome as compared with the seven-and-a-half-pound volume — John Lawler >
 < adults often leave heavier tomes for cooler weather to dip into light summer fare — New York Times Book Review >
 < two lines of poetry often tell us more, give us more, than the weightiest tome of an erudite — Henry Miller >
 < waded conscientiously through many formidable tomes — W.S.Maugham >
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