| 单词 | literary |
| 释义 | literary (lɪtərəri , US -reri ) 1. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] B2 Literary means concerned with or connected with the writing, study, or appreciation of literature. Her literary criticism focuses on the way great literature suggests ideas. She's the literary editor of the 'Sunday Review'. ...a literary masterpiece. Synonyms: well-read, lettered, learned, formal 2. adjective Literary words and expressions are often unusual in some way and are used to create a special effect in a piece of writing such as a poem, speech, or novel. Collocations: literary giant He was a literary giant of the time, a writer of playful, postmodern, avant-garde short fiction. Times, Sunday Times We soon discovered how reassuring ordinary love could be between a 68-year-old literary giant and a buxom, clever 30-year-old secretary. Times, Sunday Times Meeting this literary giant was a privilege. Times, Sunday Times Projects to locate and identify his remains, and then offer a more appropriate resting place for a literary giant, have long been opposed by his family. Times, Sunday Times To paraphrase another literary giant, losing one of your leading strikers in the middle of the season may be regarded as misfortune, but losing two looks like managerial carelessness. Times, Sunday Times The excellent independent literary magazine sells itself as being 'where new writing finds its voice', with original short fiction and poetry-sharing pages, reviews and features. Times, Sunday Times In high school he became editor of a literary magazine and wrote 'very adolescent and unformed' short stories and poetry. Times, Sunday Times Only four years ago, when a friend suggested she enter a competition in a literary magazine, she could barely afford the 20 fee. Times, Sunday Times My third invite was to a party for a literary magazine. Times, Sunday Times It was beginning to sound suspicious, but what kind of scammer would try to collect a couple of hundred dollars from a literary magazine? The Times Literary Supplement They couldn't understand why we had made a musical based on a literary masterpiece. The Sun We have had the web for about 15 years and long-range electronic collaboration has yet to design anything (still less produce a literary masterpiece). Times, Sunday Times These bidders would probably be surprised to learn that another author has been offering both immortality and inclusion in his literary masterpiece for almost 2,000 years. Christianity Today The finest epic of our time, but also a great and noble translation of a literary masterpiece, surpassing our expectation and imagination. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It was well regarded at the time of publication, and continues to enjoy a reputation as a literary masterpiece. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The fiction and poetry are chosen for their 'relevance' to the pupils' personal experience and its political correctness, not its literary merit. Times, Sunday Times All of these, however, can plead literary merit. Times, Sunday Times I have since developed in my mind a hierarchy of lounger-bagging enforceability based on literary merit. Times, Sunday Times What mattered was not adherence to rules (or, indeed, literary merit) but the expression of the author's personality. Times, Sunday Times Well, yes, we never actually said it had any literary merit. Times, Sunday Times It perhaps succeeds as a literary novel, but as a thriller it never quite takes off. Times,Sunday Times Simultaneously, the literary novel had become increasingly hermetic, more interested in literary theory than in narrative. Times, Sunday Times And if that wasn't unlikely enough, a literary novel. Times, Sunday Times A great, underrated literary novel. Times, Sunday Times It pulls off the difficult trick of being an intelligent literary novel with potential mass appeal. Times, Sunday Times And when he was diagnosed, in 2010, with leukaemia and side-orders of emphysema and kidney failure, many assumed his dazzling literary output was over. Times, Sunday Times The urgency of his mission inspired a prodigious literary output. Times, Sunday Times Yet his literary output was conspicuously slender. Times, Sunday Times He himself believed that his scientific studies would eventually be seen as more significant than his literary output. The Times Literary Supplement He trots off to fetch his literary output and comes back with three examples. Times, Sunday Times Just what's driving this literary phenomenon? Christianity Today Yates soon became a literary phenomenon. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Among the more persistent literary phenomena of recent years are books on the elements that make for success, and those which seek to explain everything in human nature through neuroscience. Times, Sunday Times We don't want the players getting literary pretensions, given the standard of most football autobiographies. Times, Sunday Times The sergeant had literary pretensions. Times, Sunday Times In an area with ample literary pretensions there have been no good all-round independent bookstores for far too long. Times, Sunday Times He has no literary pretensions. Times, Sunday Times It satirizes literary pretensions both of the critic and of the poet by presenting a poet and critic (the author) whose productions are awash with misreadings and sentimental clap-trap. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The conceit provides a vehicle for lively dialogue, replete not only with light quips and literary quotation, but also with heavyweight theoretical dissertations on, inter alia, the poetics of influence. The Times Literary Supplement The score includes a brief literary quotation at the start of each movement. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Literary quotations are not always identified and when they are it can be without edition or page number. The Times Literary Supplement Each themed chapter, complete with illustrations, maps, diagrams and literary quotations, stands alone as a mini-museum in tribute to exploration. The Times Literary Supplement Contrary to what many people think, you need neither a great knowledge of the classics nor a mind stocked with literary quotations to enjoy the puzzle's subtlety. Times, Sunday Times This method was for convenience of literary reference. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He has unearthed an admirable array of literary references to printed pictures in order to demonstrate their familiarity on the urban (and even provincial) scene. The Times Literary Supplement He wrote clever dialogue with numerous literary references. Times, Sunday Times There are a lot of literary references and dark elements yet you like to be called a pop band? The Sun Last week's column urged my profession to avoid literary references and allusions that are so commonplace that they've become hackneyed. Times, Sunday Times Sand's literary reputation has lasted too, as the many editions of her works testify, though it has fluctuated in the winds of fashion. The Times Literary Supplement The result was a renaissance, both in his literary reputation and his depleted bank balance. Times, Sunday Times Perhaps she did not gain the literary reputation for which she hoped, but she consoled herself that she had got plenty else out of life. Times, Sunday Times I, though, drive south from the stately home and through a hamlet with a literary reputation. Times, Sunday Times As his professional life apparently flourished, his literary reputation grew. Times, Sunday Times Apart from his writing and constant efforts to influence events on the literary scene, he was in demand as a lecturer. Times, Sunday Times It's a carnivalesque antidote to all those earnest, urban epics by the graduate trainees of the literary scene. Times, Sunday Times According to the site, this commentary on the literary scene, replete with voluble footnotes, had a print of run of thirty-six. The Times Literary Supplement What about the current literary scene? Times, Sunday Times Although she formed close friendships with many fellow writers and poets, she shunned the idea of being part of a literary scene. Times, Sunday Times But don't worry if you're not a literary scholar. The Sun As a journalist - he never called himself a critic, let alone a literary scholar - he wrote to be read and to influence common readers. The Times Literary Supplement For a literary scholar who rightly prides himself on his engagement with historical evidence, this resolute nescience deserves attention. The Times Literary Supplement He became known throughout the world as a leading literary scholar, educator, author, book critic and preacher. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In a couple of articles published at this time, the literary scholar described the phenomenon as a form of unmediated or improvisational speech. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Is your literary sensibility offended by sparky characters, jokes and vivid scenesetting? Times, Sunday Times His literary sensibility exhibits both 'delicacy' - a key term - and passion. The Times Literary Supplement This new find will help to consolidate her resurrected reputation, and deepen understanding of a generous, yet steely, literary sensibility. Times, Sunday Times First, he had a poetic literary sensibility. Smithsonian She has seven novels to her name, and she approaches the events of her own life with a literary sensibility. The Times Literary Supplement All hugely ambitious, all from successful literary sources. Times, Sunday Times With the most unusual monikers, look to literary sources for explanations. Houston Chronicle A professional reader would probably have expected a more original engagement with the literary sources. The Times Literary Supplement And there are many more, as we discovered when we started compiling our list of films that surpass their literary sources. Times, Sunday Times For this he resorted, like other writers, to literary sources. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It includes literary studies, verse, essays, activist compositions and a novel. The Times Literary Supplement She believed the yoking of literary studies to academic careerism was wrong. Times, Sunday Times For all the vagaries of fashion, some aspects of literary studies, textual scholarship and critical reading have improved. The Times Literary Supplement Because we need them — maybe not every individual scholar among us, but the varied disciplines of literary studies as a whole. The Times Literary Supplement In literary studies, this has fostered a new method of criticism under the heading of 'thing theory'. The Times Literary Supplement Their books are solid accumulations of detail, definitely not exercises in literary style. Times, Sunday Times This sixth volume of reviews, essays, tributes and memoir a memorial to a fine inclusive mind, a fine literary style and a fine cultural discretion. Times, Sunday Times Will my literary style measure up to the subject? Times, Sunday Times The crisp literary style of her results enabled readers in many fields to understand, and enjoy her arguments. Times, Sunday Times Nobody, least of all its author, expected it to become a mustread bestseller in more than 30 countries, one that has also won praise for its literary style. Times, Sunday Times He enjoyed her company and respected her literary talent and judgment. Times, Sunday Times Her literary talent blossomed when she became a biographer. Times, Sunday Times For the memory of his largerthan-life personality risks eclipsing any lasting appreciation of his significant literary talent. The Times Literary Supplement He also fancied himself as a literary talent. Times, Sunday Times Naturally, publishers and agents have gravitated to the salons, partly on the lookout for new literary talent, but mostly to let their hair down. Times, Sunday Times Is literary taste just a matter of personal preference, or are there absolute standards? Times, Sunday Times She was known for her 'good literary taste' and her 'funky, whimsical style in clothing'. Times, Sunday Times Reckless faith, literary taste and political expediency collide and swirl in a tough, nourishing play. Times, Sunday Times Here, analytic bibliography gives way to literary taste. The Times Literary Supplement However dark your literary taste, the dominant gloom here lacks texture, contrast and perhaps point. The Times Literary Supplement Any literary text, classic or otherwise, that's been adapted for the screen 23 times already needs a fundamentally innovative makeover to justify its own existence. Times, Sunday Times The writer's task, especially when it came to adapting books, was to subtract rather than to add, and to avoid producing a self-consciously literary text. Times, Sunday Times In recent years she has published several corpora of inscriptions, and one literary text online, developing agreed standards and protocols. The Times Literary Supplement How can we judge the ideas, research, drafts - all the steps along the way to the completion of a literary text? The Times Literary Supplement Post-structuralism rejects the idea of a literary text having a single purpose, a single meaning, or one singular existence. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Literary tradition beckons to one outcome, reality, perhaps, another. Times, Sunday Times Of course there was a literary tradition available to be solemnly followed or burlesqued. The Times Literary Supplement One wouldn't want to be without these erudite and engaging chapters, but they weaken the case for regarding mock epic as a coherent literary tradition. The Times Literary Supplement Sensing, perhaps, that these questions pose a threat, the literary tradition has sometimes attempted to insulate itself from them. The Times Literary Supplement For a long time surfing has stood alone among adrenalin sports in not having produced a substantive literary tradition. Times, Sunday Times The rose of literary translation was not without its thorns. The Times Literary Supplement It was, in fact, his preferred method of literary translation even when he went solo. The Times Literary Supplement The fellowships have recognised a wide range of forms: from graphic design to ceramics to literary translation. Times, Sunday Times There are different metaphors concerning literary translation. The Times Literary Supplement Literary translation 'expands our ability to explore the thoughts and feelings of people from another society or another time' and allows us to 'live outside our skins'. Times, Sunday Times Totally unrelated to his literary work, he became fascinated by dirt, physical and verbal. Times, Sunday Times Some authors have made their will their last literary work. Times, Sunday Times It can become quasiconcrete: a literary work showing signs of pedantic elaboration. Times, Sunday Times It remains the twentieth century's most important literary work. The Times Literary Supplement I was here, if not to make sense of it, then to approach her literary work with a question. The Times Literary Supplement Translations: Chinese: 文学的 Japanese: 文学の |
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