| 单词 | book world |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbook world book world n. (a) (with the) the world of literature or publishing; (b) life or the world as described in literature; a fictional world. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > [noun] literary world1727 book world1784 society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > fiction > [noun] > life as described in fiction book world1906 1784 A. Hamilton Let. from Phocion (verso rear cover) (advt.) For more particulars in the American Book-World, please to enquire, for Bell's Sale Catalogue. 1858 W. Bagehot Coll. Wks. (1965) I. 332 In the book-world they [sc. the Liberal party] enjoyed a domination. 1905 Daily Chron. 18 July 3/2 The whole book-world is a commonwealth to which certain first, fixed principles apply. 1906 Daily Chron. 7 May 3/5 The book-world, which is the edited reflection of life, brings the great facts of contrast into added prominence. 1998 Courier Mail (Queensland) (Nexis) 13 June (Weekend) 9 He has spent more than 10,000 hours over 11 years creating such a book world in A Shadow on the Glass. 2004 Independent (Compact ed.) 1 Apr. 8/1 Administrator of the Man Booker Prize, Grand Pooh-Bah of literary London and overseeing deity of the book world. < as lemmas |
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