| 单词 | literature |
| 释义 | lit·er·a·ture 1. archaic < in many things he was grotesquely ignorant; he was a man of very small literature — W.D.Howells > 2. < continually dissociated himself from literature … as a profession — Philip Rahv > 3. a. < 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. < 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 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. < asked for volunteers to distribute campaign literature > < induced to migrate by glowing real-estate development literature — American Guide Series: Tennessee > 4. < programs … representing within any one year the greatest possible breadth of musical literature — William Schuman > specifically < a cross section of the Brahms piano literature — Saturday Review > |
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