also text-book, "book used by students," 1779, from text (n.) + book (n.). Earlier (1730) it meant "book printed with wide spaces between the lines" for notes or translation (such a book would have been used by students), from the notion of the text of a book being more open than the close notes. As an adjective from 1916.
双语例句
1. The house is a textbook example of medieval domestic architecture.
这所房子是典型的中世纪民居。
来自柯林斯例句
2. I gave the textbook back to him.
我将课本还给他了。
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3. Long passages in this textbook have been lifted from other authors.
