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词汇 closed-book
释义 closed book
noun[ S ]
 informaluk /ˌkləʊzd ˈbʊk/ us /ˌkloʊzd ˈbʊk/
a subject about which you know or understand nothing: 一无所知的学科,完全不懂的学科
closed book toI'm afraid physics will always be a closed book to me.恐怕我对物理永远是一窍不通了。
Synonyms
enigma
mystery
secret
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Difficult to understand
abstruse
abstrusely
ambiguity
ambiguous
ambiguously
esoterically
fathomless
fathomlessly
garble
get it into your thick headidiom
labyrinthine
lost
non-intuitive
obscurely
obscurity
unreadable
verbiage
verbosely
verbosity
wasted on someoneidiom

Examples of closed book


closed book
Schleiermacher's whole account of these matters will be a closedbook to such a person, and to any naturalistic perspective.
Verschwiegen translates as 'secretly' or 'silently' or 'discreetly' and is the last word in a phrase comparing the horizon to a closedbook of charms, an unfathomable book of secrets.
Lincoln is seated on a tree stump and holds a partially closedbook in his proper right hand.
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A meta-analysis and critical review of the effects of conventional neuroleptic treatment on cognition in schizophrenia: opening a closedbook.
For most of us, the youth culture that creates so many tensions in our communities is a closedbook.
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After all, a book remains a closedbook just as much if you cannot open it as if you cannot read it.
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The real nature of those dealings is a closedbook for most of us.
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At one time schools were a closedbook.
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They are certainly a closedbook to me.
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Indeed, the sea affair is a closedbook to the average citizen.
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They say that they will increase democracy but it becomes a closedbook.
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Therefore, that is somewhat of a closedbook to me.
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I hope they will not take the view that, because we have had reports in the past, everything is a closedbook in the future.
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This subject is a closedbook to most people.
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Are they assuming that this question of federation is a closedbook?
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