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one for the book

/book/US // bʊk //UK // (bʊk) //

一本书,一本,一书,一册

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
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    • : a handwritten or printed work of fiction or nonfiction, usually on sheets of paper fastened or bound together within covers.
    • : a work of fiction or nonfiction in an electronic format: Your child can listen to or read the book online.See also e-book.
    • : a number of sheets of blank or ruled paper bound together for writing, recording business transactions, etc.
    • : a division of a literary work, especially one of the larger divisions.
    • : the Book, the Bible.
    • : Music. the text or libretto of an opera, operetta, or musical.
    • : books. book of account.
    • : Jazz. the total repertoire of a band.
    • : a script or story for a play.
    • : a record of bets, as on a horse race.
    • : Cards. the number of basic tricks or cards that must be taken before any trick or card counts in the score.
    • : a set or packet of tickets, checks, stamps, matches, etc., bound together like a book.
    • : anything that serves for the recording of facts or events: The petrified tree was a book of Nature.
    • : Sports. a collection of facts and information about the usual playing habits, weaknesses, methods, etc., of an opposing team or player, especially in baseball: The White Sox book on Mickey Mantle cautioned pitchers to keep the ball fast and high.
    • : Stock Exchange. the customers served by each registered representative in a brokerage house.a loose-leaf binder kept by a specialist to record orders to buy and sell stock at specified prices.
    • : a pile or package of leaves, as of tobacco.
    • : Mineralogy. a thick block or crystal of mica.
    • : a magazine: used especially in magazine publishing.
    • : book value.
    • : Slang. bookmaker.
    • : the book, a set of rules, conventions, or standards: The solution was not according to the book but it served the purpose.the telephone book: I've looked him up, but he's not in the book.
v.有主动词 verb
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    • : to enter in a book or list; record; register.
    • : to reserve or make a reservation for: We booked a table at our favorite restaurant.
    • : to register or list for a place, transportation, appointment, etc.: The travel agent booked us for next week's cruise.
    • : to engage for one or more performances.
    • : to enter an official charge against on a police register.
    • : to act as a bookmaker for: The Philadelphia syndicate books 25 million dollars a year on horse racing.
v.无主动词 verb
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    • : to register one's name.
    • : to engage a place, services, etc.
    • : Slang. to study hard, as a student before an exam: He left the party early to book.to leave; depart: I'm bored with this party, let's book.to work as a bookmaker: He started a restaurant with money he got from booking.
adj.形容词 adjective
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    • : of or relating to a book or books: the book department; a book salesman.
    • : derived or learned from or based on books: a book knowledge of sailing.
    • : shown by a book of account: The firm's book profit was $53,680.
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    • : book in, to sign in, as at a job.
    • : book out, to sign out, as at a job.
    • : book up, to sell out in advance: The hotel is booked up for the Christmas holidays.

Synonyms & Antonyms

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Examples

  • She waited for my rant to finish and then reminded me that the book, still in my hand, was one I had pulled from her own bookshelf.

  • I defy you to read the book—or, worse, review the Twitter commentary about it—and come away feeling good about the prospects for American comity.

  • Such deals aren’t typically part of Warren Buffett’s play book, although in 2018 Berkshire invested in the initial offering of Brazilian fintech StoneCo Ltd.

  • On the other side, in March everyone who booked a trip cancelled it.

  • More than two decades ago, I wrote a book with my New York Times colleagues Judith Miller and Bill Broad called “Germs” that looked at the modern history of biological warfare.

  • 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.

  • At some point during his busy schedule, Israel found the time to write a book, titled The Global War on Morris.

  • My publisher had asked, “If you wanted to write another book, what would you want to write about?”

  • 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.