单词 | literary |
释义 | lit·er·ary 1. archaic 2. a. < the educational system should provide a literary as well as a rational education — G.K.Chalmers > < literary institution > b. < renouncing the dogma that Latin was the literary language of Italy, began to write in Tuscan — G.C.Sellery > < described his types in the grand literary manner, with great subtlety and penetration — William Stephenson > < a literary magazine may deal with … anything at all, so long as each article is a piece of literature — R.G.Howarth > c. < this work is too wordy, and the dialogue has a muffled literary flavor — T.G.Bergin > d. < literary agent > < literary manuscripts > 3. a. < he is literary, given to quoting to himself rather long stretches of remembered lines — F.J.Hoffman > b. < a new star in the literary firmament — Yankee > < for her admirable series of literary biographies she has chosen … nineteenth-century poets — Harrison Smith > < was rather literary in college — Scott Fitzgerald > 4. of a painting or sculpture |
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