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copybook

/kop-ee-book/US // ˈkɒp iˌbʊk //UK // (ˈkɒpɪˌbʊk) //

抄本,抄写本,复写本,复印本

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a book containing models, usually of penmanship, for learners to imitate.
    • : a book for or containing copies, as of documents.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : commonplace; stereotyped: a copybook sort of phrase.

Examples

  • Powell is someone who truly "blotted his copybook," as the Brits used to say.

  • Thee reading print like the young minister and writing letters like a copybook!

  • Sargent who alone had lingered came forward slowly, showing an open copybook.

  • Rag and Tatters, and copybook wisdom, well-thumbed and learnt, and then retailed as the original article.

  • This was another copybook much used by builders and provincial architects.

  • Audouin took the book in his hand—Sam Churchill's ten-cent copybook—and turned over the well-filled pages with a critical eye.