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单词 bookish
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Examples from literature
  • Above all, they objected to the bookish education which she was giving to her son, the young King.
  • Bookish families are usually the happiest, at least if we rightly estimate the term.
  • He had, in truth, somewhat of a bookish look, and his rounded shoulders already told of much poring over a student's tasks.
  • He was probably the least bookish poet who had ever had a classical education.
  • No one was less bookish than himself.

Examplesofbookish

bookish
In part, this was a conventional rhetorical strategy designed to separate thebookishand divine from the illiterate and worldly.
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Abookishidea helped to solidify a social reality.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The subversive side of the lab had as its target to undermine the prevalentbookishcharacter of foreign language learning and teaching.
From theCambridge English Corpus
With a very few exceptions, he was notbookish, and he sometimes had a little difficulty with his entrance examinations.
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Knowledge of thebookishtype is, after all, a comparatively limited form of knowledge.
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The codes are to apply to our good police officers who are honest, courageous and upright, but notbookishpersons.
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One of my colleagues at that time was a shy,bookish, softly-spoken, red-haired, bespectacled young lecturer.
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We have sometimes observed a tendency to depreciatebookishsoldiers.
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That does not mean that it is to be merely a literary orbookisheducation.
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I was born poor, but in fact we were abookishfamily.
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Learning is not simply abookishaffair.
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Abookishman, he avoided society, and buried himself in his ample library.
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He inserts into them a lost feeling, so that the song in this rendition does not have abookishfeeling.
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Blood and soil plays, for instance, depicted a woman rejecting herbookishfiance in order to marry an estate owner.
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At one stage he was adopted out to a paper-making family but thebookishboy was not suited to business.
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