bookish

英 [ˈbʊkɪʃ]

美 [ˈbʊkɪʃ]

adj.  书呆子气的; 学究似的

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BNC.34908 / COCA.23510

牛津词典

adj.

• 书呆子气的；学究似的
  interested in reading and studying, rather than in more active or practical things

柯林斯词典

• 书生气的；书呆子气的
  Someone who isbookishspends a lot of time reading serious books.

英英释义

adj

• characterized by diligent study and fondness for reading
  1. a bookish farmer who always had a book in his pocket
  2. a quiet studious child
  Synonym:studious

双语例句

• Some, though, complain that the serving us president needs to be more brutish than bookish: he has certainly found it easier to campaign in poetry than to govern in prose.
  不过，有人抱怨道，这位现任美国总统必须表现得更粗犷一些，而不是一股书卷气：奥巴马肯定已经发现，以诗意的语言竞选，要比以平实的文字执政容易。
• It was a giddy, animated crowd, but most of all bookish& a collection of fans and believers, here to listen to the written word.
  那是一群充满生气、各不相同的人们其中大部分都是书痴作为书迷以及信徒，聚集于此聆听文字的声音演绎。
• On the same journey there was a bookish looking man who spent twelve hours standing so as to protect a pair of orchids he had bought for his wife.
  同是在那次旅途之中，还有一个书卷气的人为了保护他为自己妻子买的一对兰花而站了12个小时。
• This sentence is too bookish and hard to understand.
  这句话太文了，不好懂。
• He writes in a bookish style.
  他写信的风格是文诌诌的。
• From then on we spun our adventures in collaboration, and his bookish mind and seventeen months of seniority did much for the quality of the enterprise.
  从那时起，我们开始共同编造童话。乔喜欢读书，又比我年长17个月，所以他的加入提高了虚构故事的质量。
• He agrees potential sales could be massive in one of the most bookish nations in the world.
  SerkanToto认可3DS电子书的销量极具潜力，因为日本是世界上阅读氛围最浓厚的国家。
• He was filled with bookish notions.
  他尽是书上的观点。
• He also criticized the concepts, methods, and goals of the bookish scholars.
  他也批判了书呆子的概念、方法和目标。
• At times, nevertheless, it did seem unaccountable to her that a decidedly bookish, musical, thinking young man should have chosen deliberately to be a farmer, and not a clergyman, like his father and brothers.
  不过有的时候，似乎她也难以理解，他这样一个书生气十足、爱好音乐和善于思索的年轻人，为自己选择的竟是做一个农民，而不是像他的父亲和哥哥一样去当牧师。