closed book
闭卷,封面书,封闭书,不公开的书
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- : something that is not known or cannot be understood; a mystery or puzzle: Abstract art is a closed book as far as I'm concerned.
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Yet this, in the end, is a book from which one emerges sad, gloomy, disenchanted, at least if we agree to take it seriously.
Submission is less a novel of ideas than a political book, and of the most subversive kind.
Her latest book, Heretic: The Case for a Muslim Reformation, will be published in April by HarperCollins.
He closed his eyes, imagining the virgins, imagining away the pain in his head and groin.
At some point during his busy schedule, Israel found the time to write a book, titled The Global War on Morris.
The supernaturalist alleges that religion was revealed to man by God, and that the form of this revelation is a sacred book.
But Mrs. Dodd, the present vicar's wife, retained the precious prerogative of choosing the book to be read at the monthly Dorcas.
A small book, bound in full purple calf, lay half hidden in a nest of fine tissue paper on the dressing-table.
She did not need a great cook-book; She knew how much and what it took To make things good and sweet and light.
Again the sallow fingers began to play with the book-covers, passing from one to another, but always slowly and gently.