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单词 book learning
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book learningn.

Brit. /ˈbʊk ˌləːnɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈbʊk ˌlərnɪŋ/
Forms: see book n. and learning n.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: book n., learning n.
Etymology: < book n. + learning n. Compare earlier book-learned adj.
Learning or knowledge acquired from books, esp. (frequently somewhat depreciative) as opposed to practical knowledge or common sense; the study of books.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > scholarly knowledge, erudition > [noun] > book-learning, letters
craftOE
book loreOE
lettersa1250
letter1340
lettrurec1400
literaturec1450
reading?1548
book learning1553
book skill1553
book knowledge1613
bookcrafta1637
scholarship1644
clerkship1648
letter-learning1668
bookhood1772
clerk-learning1865
literacy1880
1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique ii. f. 84v Some that be vnlearned and yet haue right good wittes: will deuise with theim selues without any Booke learnyng, what they wil saie, and how muche they wil say.
1589 ‘M. Marprelate’ Hay any Worke for Cooper 2 In my book learning, the one was some popish Trull.
1650 J. Howell Addit. Lett. viii. 14 in Epistolæ Ho-elianæ (ed. 2) The extravagant humour of our Countrey is not to be altogether commended, that all men should aspire to booke learning.
1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 157. 184 Several hints had been dropped of the uselessness of universities, the folly of book learning, and the aukwardness of scholars.
1838 N. Hawthorne Amer. Note-bks. (1871) I. 157 Intelligent as respects book-learning, but much deficient in worldly tact.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 308 He had as little book-learning as the most stupid ploughboys of England.
1917 A. K. Reischauer Stud. Japanese Buddhism iii. 117 The chief difference between the Soto and the Rinzai branches of the Zen Sect is that the former puts more weight upon book learning as a subsidiary aid to silent meditation.
1977 A. Fugard No-good Friday i, in Dimetos & Two Early Plays 6 I should have settled down to book learning. That way you always eat.
2001 I. J. Deary Intelligence i. 17 Intelligence..is not merely book learning, a narrow academic skill, or test-taking smarts.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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