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off-the-books

/awf-thuh-books, of-/US // ˈɔf ðəˈbʊks, ˈɒf- //

书外话,账外账,书外书,帐外帐

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : not recorded in account books or not reported as taxable income.

Examples

  • In his view, a writer has only one duty: to be present in his books.

  • France 24 is providing live, round-the-clock coverage of both scenes as they progress.

  • This is even more striking in Submission than in his previous books.

  • We do see that a few European countries have them on the books: Germany, Poland, Italy, Ireland, a couple more.

  • Isolated lesbians learned that there were other women like them via books whose covers aimed to titillate heterosexual men.

  • Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.

  • A far-off volley rumbled over the plain, and a few birds stirred uneasily among the trees.

  • They will carry out the dictum of Carlyle that the modern university is a university of books.

  • Peter Elmsly, a partner of the celebrated Paul Valliant, and himself an importer of books and no mean critic and linguist, died.

  • People have not only ceased to purchase those old-fashioned things called books, but even to read them!