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词汇 bookish
释义 bookish
adjective
 mainly disapprovinguk /ˈbʊk.ɪʃ/ us /ˈbʊk.ɪʃ/
A bookish person enjoys reading books, especially serious books.喜欢读书的;书呆子气的;学究式的
Synonym
studious
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Intelligent people
bluestocking
bookishly
bookworm
brain
bright spark
cerebral
clever
gnome
intellectual
laureate
longhair
mage
pretty
sage
scholar
smart cookie
smart-arse
swot
the intelligentsia
wit
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. 

bookish | American Dictionary


bookish
adjective
us/ˈbʊk·ɪʃ/
enjoying books more than other things:
He’s pleasant but a shy, bookish type.

Examples of bookish


bookish
In part, this was a conventional rhetorical strategy designed to separate the bookish and divine from the illiterate and worldly.
A bookish idea helped to solidify a social reality.
The subversive side of the lab had as its target to undermine the prevalent bookish character of foreign language learning and teaching.
With a very few exceptions, he was not bookish, and he sometimes had a little difficulty with his entrance examinations.
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Knowledge of the bookish type 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 not bookish persons.
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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 depreciate bookish soldiers.
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That does not mean that it is to be merely a literary or bookish education.
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I was born poor, but in fact we were a bookish family.
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Learning is not simply a bookish affair.
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A bookish man, 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 a bookish feeling.
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Blood and soil plays, for instance, depicted a woman rejecting her bookish fiance in order to marry an estate owner.
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At one stage he was adopted out to a paper-making family but the bookish boy was not suited to business.
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