单词 | book learning |
释义 | book learningn. Learning or knowledge acquired from books, esp. (frequently somewhat depreciative) as opposed to practical knowledge or common sense; the study of books. ΘΚΠ 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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