copybook
/kop-ee-book/US // ˈkɒp iˌbʊk //UK // (ˈkɒpɪˌbʊk) //
抄本,抄写本,复写本,复印本
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : a book containing models, usually of penmanship, for learners to imitate.
- : a book for or containing copies, as of documents.
adj.形容词 adjective
- 1
- : commonplace; stereotyped: a copybook sort of phrase.
Examples
Powell is someone who truly "blotted his copybook," as the Brits used to say.
Thee reading print like the young minister and writing letters like a copybook!
Sargent who alone had lingered came forward slowly, showing an open copybook.
Rag and Tatters, and copybook wisdom, well-thumbed and learnt, and then retailed as the original article.
This was another copybook much used by builders and provincial architects.
Audouin took the book in his hand—Sam Churchill's ten-cent copybook—and turned over the well-filled pages with a critical eye.
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