“book、worm”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

book-worm

释义

book-worm|ˈbʊkwɜːm|
1. lit. A kind of maggot which destroys books by eating its way through the leaves.
1855Mrs. Gatty Parables fr. Nat. Ser. xviii. (1809) 66 The bookworm..had just eaten his way through the back of Lord Bacon's Advancement of Learning.1886Bookseller 6 Nov. 1180 A living specimen of a bookworm..Book-worms are the larvæ of a small beetle (anobium.).. I discovered that many of the volumes contained living bookworms.
2. fig. One who seems to find his chief sustenance in reading, one who is always poring over books.
1599B. Jonson Cynthia's Rev. iii. ii, Perverted and spoiled by a whoreson book-worm.a1736Pope Lett. Wks. 1736 V. 141, I wanted but a black gown and a salary, to be as meer a bookworm as any there.1865Merivale Rom. Emp. VIII. lxvii. 278 No sophist, no schoolman, no mere dreaming bookworm.

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