tome
tome 英 [təʊm] 美 [toʊm]
n. 册；大本书
名词复数:tomes
- A tome is a large book. If you're pre-med, chances are you're going to have one heck of a tome for your biology class. Tome is often used to refer to a book that is not only really large but also unusually important.
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- n. 册；大本书
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1. The 288-page tome is our latest production and dare I say it, it's a joy to go through.
这本288页厚的大部头是我们的最新制作，一页页地浏览过去真是一件赏心乐事。
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2. Open that old tome from the bookshelf over the fireplace, stick your nose in its pages and smell the ink, the glue and the immortality of the printed words.
在火炉上方的架子上，您可以看到那中大书。 翻开这本大书，将鼻子贴近书面，您可以闻到墨香，书胶，还有文字的古老气息。
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3. The books were “Law of Nations”, Dissertation on International Relations and tome of debate by Members of the British House of Commons.
借走的书籍包括“万国公法”，国际关系专题论文和英国下议院议员辩论大卷册。
- tome (n.) 1510s, "a single volume of a multi-volume work," from Middle French tome (16c.), from Latin tomus "section of a book, tome," from Greek tomos "volume, section of a book," originally "a section, piece cut off," from temnein "to cut," from PIE root *tem- "to cut." Sense of "a large book" is attested from 1570s.
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