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literary

/lit-uh-rer-ee/US // ˈlɪt əˌrɛr i //UK // (ˈlɪtərərɪ, ˈlɪtrərɪ) //

文学,文学的,文学上的,文学家

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : pertaining to or of the nature of books and writings, especially those classed as literature: literary history.
    • : pertaining to authorship: literary style.
    • : versed in or acquainted with literature; well-read.
    • : engaged in or having the profession of literature or writing: a literary man.
    • : characterized by an excessive or affected display of learning; stilted; pedantic.
    • : preferring books to actual experience; bookish.

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Examples

  • Steve Erickson is the author of 10 novels including Shadowbahn, Zeroville, These Dreams of You and Our Ecstatic Days—as well as two works of literary non-fiction about politics and culture—that have been translated into 11 languages.

  • There, he determined to relaunch his stalled literary career.

  • We could also use a literary culture that nurtures more writers the way it has Duchovny.

  • Her debut poetry volume is expected in September, her first picture book is on the way, and she has several other literary projects cooking.

  • Much as I value serious literary fiction, I find reading it to be exceptionally draining.

  • From this attitude he draws a singular comic and literary power.

  • Lacey Noonan's A Gronking to Remember makes 50 Shades of Grey look like Madame Bovary in terms of its literary sophistication.

  • The goal is to create a literary anatomy of the last century—or, to be precise, from 1900 to 2014.

  • To reclaim it, he had to move beyond established conventions about how a literary career should be conducted.

  • A new book from Mallory Ortberg imagines what literary legends including King Lear and Jane Eyre would have texted.

  • Louis Petit de Bachaumon died; a native of Paris, known as the author of several literary works.

  • It was strenuously opposed by all possible means, governmental, legislative, and literary.

  • Samuel Badcock, an English divine and writer, died; admired as a pulpit orator and a man of literary talent.

  • She was a woman of great intellectual endowment, with highly cultivated literary tastes.

  • Robert Harley, earl of Oxford, died; an English statesman and literary character.