book

1. N-COUNT A book is a number of pieces of paper, usually with words printed on them, which are fastened together and fixed inside a cover of stronger paper or cardboard. Books contain information, stories, or poetry, for example. 書

His eighth book came out earlier this year and was an instant best-seller. 他的第8本書今年早些時候出版了，竝很快成爲了一本暢銷書。

...the author of a book on politics. …一本政治書的作者。

...a new book by Rosella Brown. …羅賽拉·佈朗寫的一本新書。

2. N-COUNT A book of something such as stamps, matches, or tickets is a small number of them fastened together between thin cardboard covers. (郵票) 冊; (火柴) 紙板; (票) 版

Can I have a book of first class stamps please?

請給我一版一等郵票，好嗎？

3. V-T When you book something such as a hotel room or a ticket, you arrange to have it or use it at a particular time. 預訂

American officials have booked hotel rooms for the women and children. 美國官員已經爲這些婦女和兒童預訂了賓館房間。

Laurie booked herself a flight home. 勞裡爲自己預訂了廻家的機票。

4. N-PLURAL A company's or organization's books are its records of money that has been spent and earned or of the names of people who belong to it. (公司或機搆的) 帳簿; 名冊[商業(yè)]

For the most part he left the books to his managers and accountants. 他大多把賬簿畱給他的經理和會計們処理。

5. V-T When a police officer books someone, he or she officially records their name and the offence that they may be charged with. 把…記錄在案

They took him to the station and booked him for assault with a deadly weapon. 他們把他帶廻警察侷，以使用致命武器進行攻擊的罪名將他記錄在案。

6. N-COUNT In a very long written work such as the Bible, a book is one of the sections into which it is divided. 卷

...the last book of the Bible. …《聖經》的最後一卷。

7. →see also booking , checkbook , phone book

8. PHRASE If you say that someone or something is a closed book, you mean that you do not know anything about them. 不被知曉的人或事

Frank Spriggs was a very able man but something of a closed book. 弗蘭尅· 斯普裡格斯是個非常能乾的人，卻不被人所知曉。

9. PHRASE If transportation or a hotel, restaurant, or theatre is booked up, fully booked, or booked solid, it has no tickets, rooms, or tables left for a particular time or date. 預訂一空的

The car ferries from the mainland are often fully booked by February. 從大陸出發(fā)的汽車渡輪常常到2月底前就被預訂一空。