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hornbook

/hawrn-book/US // ˈhɔrnˌbʊk //UK // (ˈhɔːnˌbʊk) //

牛角书,喇叭书,喇叭口书,角书

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a leaf or page containing the alphabet, religious materials, etc., covered with a sheet of transparent horn and fixed in a frame with a handle, formerly used in teaching children to read.
    • : a primer or book of rudiments.

Synonyms & Antonyms

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Synonyms
addition增加,补充,加法,增加了debut首次亮相,首演,亮相,首发establishment建立,建立的,建立了,建立起来的inauguration就职典礼,就职仪式,就职典礼上,就任典礼influx流入,涌入,流入量,流动initiation启动,启动仪式,倡议,启蒙installation安装,安装工作,安装方式,安装工程launch启动,发射,推出,发起opening开场,开幕,开放,开幕式preface序言,前言,序文,序论presentation介绍,演示文稿,演讲,演讲稿admittance入学,入学须知,入学率,入学考试awakening觉醒,觉醒的,觉醒的人,唤醒baptism洗礼,接受洗礼,受洗,浸礼beginning开始,初期,开头,起点commencement开始,启动,展开,生效essentials要点,要素,要领,要旨exordium序言,绪论,序言部分,大纲foreword前言,序言,序文inception开始时,初期,开始,开始的时候induction诱导,归纳,感应,归纳法ingress入境,侵入,摄取,进入insertion插入,插入式,插入法,植入institution机构,制度,体制interpolation内插法,插值,插补,内插intro介绍,简介,引言,导言lead领导,导致,领先,牵头lead-in导入,引入,引导,引导性overture序曲,序言,序幕preamble序言,前言,序言部分,弁言preliminaries序言,序言部分,预备工作,前言prelude前奏,前奏曲,序幕,前言primer底漆,引子,入门级,底层的prolegomenon序言,序言部分,序文,序幕prologue序幕,序言,序章,序曲survey调查,调查表,调查报告,观察basic principles基本原则,基本原理,基本原則,基础原则basic text基本文本,基础文本,基本的文本,基本文案first acquaintance初次相识,初识,初次见面,初次认识first taste初次品尝,初尝,初尝甜头,初试opening remarks开场白,开幕词,开幕辞,开幕致辞pioneering开拓性,开拓性的,开创性,开创性的proem脯,脯氨酸,脯脯,脯果

Examples

  • This may seem like hornbook eighth-grade civics, but it bears repeating.

  • And, Captain Borroughcliffe, as you appear to be forgetting the use of your own language, here is even a hornbook for you!

  • It was difficult to get books in those days, and a hornbook would last a long time.

  • They also tell of the use of the hornbook and the sun-dial, describe the making of soap and candles, and so forth.

  • But not to nod over a hornbook at the petty school—not John Shakespeare's son!

  • His "Gull's Hornbook" is written against coxcombs, and he says their "vinegar railings shall not quench his Alpine resolutions."