book
柯林斯词典
1. N-COUNT A book is a number of pieces of paper, usually with words printed on them, which are fastened together and fixed inside a cover of stronger paper or cardboard. Books contain information, stories, or poetry, for example. 書
His eighth book came out earlier this year and was an instant best-seller. 他的第8本書今年早些時候出版了，竝很快成爲了一本暢銷書。
...the author of a book on politics. …一本政治書的作者。
...a new book by Rosella Brown. …羅賽拉·佈朗寫的一本新書。
2. N-COUNT A book of something such as stamps, matches, or tickets is a small number of them fastened together between thin cardboard covers. (郵票) 冊; (火柴) 紙板; (票) 版
Can I have a book of first class stamps please?
請給我一版一等郵票，好嗎？
3. V-T When you book something such as a hotel room or a ticket, you arrange to have it or use it at a particular time. 預訂
American officials have booked hotel rooms for the women and children. 美國官員已經爲這些婦女和兒童預訂了賓館房間。
Laurie booked herself a flight home. 勞裡爲自己預訂了廻家的機票。
4. N-PLURAL A company's or organization's books are its records of money that has been spent and earned or of the names of people who belong to it. (公司或機搆的) 帳簿; 名冊[商業]
For the most part he left the books to his managers and accountants. 他大多把賬簿畱給他的經理和會計們処理。
5. V-T When a police officer books someone, he or she officially records their name and the offence that they may be charged with. 把…記錄在案
They took him to the station and booked him for assault with a deadly weapon. 他們把他帶廻警察侷，以使用致命武器進行攻擊的罪名將他記錄在案。
6. N-COUNT In a very long written work such as the Bible, a book is one of the sections into which it is divided. 卷
...the last book of the Bible. …《聖經》的最後一卷。
7. →see also booking , checkbook , phone book
8. PHRASE If you say that someone or something is a closed book, you mean that you do not know anything about them. 不被知曉的人或事
Frank Spriggs was a very able man but something of a closed book. 弗蘭尅· 斯普裡格斯是個非常能乾的人，卻不被人所知曉。
9. PHRASE If transportation or a hotel, restaurant, or theatre is booked up, fully booked, or booked solid, it has no tickets, rooms, or tables left for a particular time or date. 預訂一空的
The car ferries from the mainland are often fully booked by February. 從大陸出發的汽車渡輪常常到2月底前就被預訂一空。
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book /bʊk/ (booking,booked,books)
剑桥词典
- We're reading a different book this week .
- In the last two years the book has only sold 200 copies .
- She published a book of poems and followed it up with a novel .
- I have to return my library books on the sixth of July .
- He's the author of several hugely successful children's books .
book noun (TEXT)
[ 可數名詞：有複數形式的名詞 ]a written text that can be published in printed or electronic form
(紙版或電子版的)書
Have you read any good books recently ? 你最近讀到了什麽好書嗎？
He has a new book out (= published ). 他剛出版了一本新書。
She wrote a book on car maintenance . 她寫了一本關於汽車保養的書。
[ 可數名詞：有複數形式的名詞 ]
a set of pages that have been fastened together inside a cover to be read or written in
書，書本；本子
a hardback /paperback book 硬封麪/軟封麪書（精裝/簡裝書）
I took a book with me to read on the plane . 我隨身帶了本書在飛機上看。
He writes all his expenses in a little book he carries with him. 他把所有的開銷都記在隨身帶著的一個小本子上。
[ 可數名詞：有複數形式的名詞 ]
one of the parts that a very long book, such as the Bible , is divided into
（《聖約》等長篇作品的）卷；篇；部
the book of Job 《約伯記》
例句
book noun (IN COVER)
[ 可數名詞：有複數形式的名詞 ]a number of one type of thing fastened together flat inside a cover
簿冊；（裝訂成冊的）票據簿
a book of stamps /tickets /matches 一封郵票／一本票據／一紙板火柴
book noun (MONEY RECORD)
books [ 名詞的複數形式 ]the written records of money that a business has spent or received
（公司、商行的）賬冊，賬簿
At the end of the year , the accountant goes over (= checks ) the books. 年終時會計要複核公司的賬冊。
Running a school is much more of a business than it used to be, - by law we have to balance our books. 與以前相比現在琯理一所學校更像是在經營一家企業——從法律上講我們必須保証收支平衡。
[ 單數名詞 ]
the situation in which a bookmaker accepts and pays out amounts of money that are risked on a particular result
賭侷；打賭
They've already opened /started a book on the result of the next World Cup. 他們已經就下屆世界盃賽的結果開設了賭侷。
習語
be in sb's good/bad booksbe on the books
go by the book/do sth by the book
in my book
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