bookworm.
/book-wurm/US // ˈbʊkˌwɜrm //UK // (ˈbʊkˌwɜːm) //
书虫,书呆子,书蠹,书生
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n.noun · 名词
- 1.
- ›a person devoted to reading or studying.
- ›any of various insects that feed on books, especially a booklouse.
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Examples
While she should read well and wisely, the girl should not turn into a bookworm.
She was a good deal of a bookworm, and did a great deal of beautiful embroidery, and never said much.
A dull bookworm like me,—cochlea vitam agens, Mr. Squills,—leading the life of a snail!
To tell the truth, a bookworm such as he is is one of the most irritating persons in existence.
It is no chimera of the recluse or the bookworm, but a potent reality.
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