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bookend

/book-end/US // ˈbʊkˌɛnd //

书刊,书本,书刊杂志社,书刊杂志

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a support placed at the end of a row of books to hold them upright, usually used in pairs.
    • : one of two things occurring or located at either end of something else: two events that served as bookends to my career.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to occur or be located at the beginning and end of: His term in office was bookended by crises.

Examples

  • The view of the Alaska Range, the joyous feeling of wind on my cheeks, and a buoyant sensation of wild abandon are forever stitched in my memory as the perfect bookend to a perfect day in the park.

  • Leno also appears locked in at left tackle, and Cosmi or Lucas could be the other bookend.

  • In fact, her surveillance became the bookends to all of his appointments.

  • It served as an unsettling bookend to a college sports year that began last summer with the flap over Oklahoma State football coach Mike Gundy wearing a One America News T-shirt.

  • What began in a church choir as a kindergartner now finds a cinematic bookend in Tran’s 30s, with a role and a prayer.

  • Your death is a tragic bookend to a year touted as the “transgender tipping point.”

  • These weeks, and especially fast days that bookend them, are about remembering the experience of loss.

  • Farm kids are educated early about the events that bookend life.

  • And it became a sort of bookend to my first experience with him.

  • But 9/11 has defined our stubbornly nameless decade, along with the bookend election of Barack Obama.

  • Before I could follow, Nan had dropped the bookend and flung herself into my arms.

  • She held a heavy bookend poised to strike at Ashe, who was in front of her, moving stealthily forward.