blurb
简介,简报,报道,概述
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Definitions
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- : a brief advertisement or announcement, especially a laudatory one: She wrote a good blurb for her friend's novel.
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- : to advertise or praise in the manner of a blurb.
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Examples
One of the many enthusiastic blurbs describes it as “gut-wrenchingly funny.”
For a novice thriller writer, Abrams plucked blurbs from nine heavy-hitters, a literary baseball starting lineup, including Nora Roberts, Scott Turow, Lee Child and Michael Connelly.
I get the sense that we’re looking at a list of magazine blurbs.
In other words, a good answer might well be found in a single passage or paragraph in an otherwise broad topic document, or random blurb page without much focus at all.
A blurb could look something like “The Trail Runner XT allows you to comfortably walk 20-25 miles a day as you trek through the beautiful landscape of the Appalachian trail”.
Even the patron saint of teenage girls, Judy Blume, is featured on the back cover with a blurb for the book.
I first read the book in galleys some months ago; the finished edition carries a blurb from me on the back cover.
He helped John McMillian and me get our first book contract, for The Radical Reader, and then wrote a generous blurb.
Shteyngart sat down with The Daily Beast to discuss the book, the art of the blurb, and, yes, teaching James Franco.
He shares his secret formula for writing a good blurb–and his selfish motive for blurbing so frequently.
Front matter consisting of a blurb and a list of other publications by the author has been moved to the end of the text.