| 单词 | book-birth |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbook-birth book-birth n. ΚΠ 1597 J. Gerard Herball To Rdr. sig. B3v This bookebirth thus brought foorth by Gerard. 1829 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 542 The author made one great effort, and died in book-birth—his offspring sharing often the doom of its unhappy parent. 1969 V. Nabokov Ada ii. ii. 342 The brilliant mirages which had risen before him when he felt the first pangs of book-birth on Cordula's terrace..were now fading under the action of prudence. 2007 A. Gibson What is Lit.? xii. 461 Chapter 10 addressed the case of the publisher as Romantic narcissist that suppressed a book-birth. < as lemmas |
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