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单词 literature
释义 lit·er·a·ture
\ˈlid.ərəˌchu̇(ə)r, ˈlitərə-, ˈli.trə-, ˈlid.ə(r)ˌch-, -ˌchu̇ə, -_chə(r), -rə.ˌtyu̇-, -rəˌtu̇-\ noun
(-s)
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: Middle English litterature, from Latin litteratura, literatura writing, grammar, learning, from litteratus, literatus literate + -ura -ure
1. archaic : knowledge of books : literary culture
 < in many things he was grotesquely ignorant; he was a man of very small literature — W.D.Howells >
2. : the production of literary work especially as an occupation
 < continually dissociated himself from literature … as a profession — Philip Rahv >
3.
 a. : writings in prose or verse; especially : writings having excellence of form or expression and expressing ideas of permanent or universal interest
  < literature stands related to man as science stands to nature — J.H.Newman >
  < our conceptions of types of character and the manifold variations of these types is due mainly to literature — John Dewey >
 b. : the body of written works produced in a particular language, country, or age
  < they speak a … sonorous and flexible language, and their literature is not unworthy of their language — H.T.Buckle >
  < that superb mess of thought and observation, lust, rhetoric, and pedantry, that we call Renaissance literature — Clive Bell >
 c. : the body of writings on a particular subject
  < the literature on field sports is a mass of technicalities held together with a sticky kind of nature loving — J.M.Barzun >
  < any scientist … will answer that at the beginning of an attack on any problem his first task is to look up the existing literature — T.H.Savory >
 d. : leaflets, handbills, circulars, or other printed matter of any kind
  < asked for volunteers to distribute campaign literature >
  < induced to migrate by glowing real-estate development literatureAmerican Guide Series: Tennessee >
4. : the aggregate of musical compositions
 < programs … representing within any one year the greatest possible breadth of musical literature — William Schuman >
specifically : compositions of regional or historical significance or for any particular instrument or group of instruments
 < a cross section of the Brahms piano literatureSaturday Review >
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