| 释义 |
blank book, blank-book orig. U.S.
[blank a. 2.]
A book of clean writing-paper in which to make entries, keep accounts, etc.
1713C. Mather Diary 12 Apr. in Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll. (1912) VIII. 199 To transcribe..into a blank Book, some instructive Passage. 1802in C. Cist Cincinnati: Early Annals, etc. 193 For a blank-book to record ordinances. 1831Boston Directory 18 (Advt.), Blank book manufacturers. 1886S. W. Mitchell R. Blake ii. 14 He spent a few minutes more over the details of daily duty set out in a little blank-book. 1952J. B. Oldham Eng. Blind-Stamped Bindings i. 2 Sometimes what appears at first to be a blank book is not really one at all. Ibid. iii. 34 Blank-book binderies. |