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text·book1 /ˈtekstbʊk/ ●●● noun [countable]  SEa book that contains information about a subject that people study, especially at school or college 教科书，教材，课本 a biology textbook 一本生物教科书► see thesaurus at book → coursebook

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textbook• The grant covers the costs of tuition, fees and textbooks.• Open most astronomy textbooks and you will find a statement somewhere that calls the Sun an average star.• I can't get hold of any of the college textbooks he recommended.• Most economics textbooks skip over the subject of investing and financial markets.• Elementary textbooks seem to contain no reference to it.• One textbook for teachers presented an entire unit on the colon.• She read Victorian novels and studied textbooks of anatomy.• Social studies textbooks have only comparatively recently begun to include gender as an area of study alongside social class or ethnicity.• The assumption is that textbooks, sanitized as they are, are factual and thus noncontroversial.textbook2 adjective [only before noun]  PERFECTused to describe something that is done exactly as it should be done, or happens exactly as it should happen 规范的；标准的textbook case/example The advertising campaign was a textbook example of how to sell a product. 这个广告活动是产品营销的一个范本案例。

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textbook case/example• The Apple Computer company was a textbook case for business schools about how two guys working out of a garage could change the world.• This is a textbook example of a parallelistic couplet, with a mirror chiasmus. is parallel to.• Suffice that this was a textbook case of civic responsibility.• Here was a textbook example of free enterprise in the marketplace of religion, a competition in which the fittest survived.• It is a textbook case of how effectively corporate lobbies work in Brussels, not just Washington.• This is a textbook example of how Hollywood undermines its best ideas, by insisting on happy endings, even when they are completely implausible.• It has become a textbook case of how to kill off public participation.• It was a textbook example of maintenance learning.• The mortgage market was one of two or three textbook cases that illustrated the change sweeping the world of finance.• The model only works at the level of the textbook example, the single isolated sentence.

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text‧book¹ /ˈtekstbʊk/ noun [countable]
a book that contains information about a subject that people study, especially at school or college:
    a biology textbook
⇨ coursebook
     

THESAURUS

■ types of book
   ▪ novel noun [countable] a book about imaginary people and events: The film is based on Nick Hornby’s best-selling novel. | a historical novel
   ▪ fiction noun [uncountable] books that describe imaginary people and events: She reads a lot of romantic fiction.
   ▪ literature noun [uncountable] novels and plays that are considered to be important works of art: I’m studying American literature at university.
   ▪ non-fiction noun [uncountable] books that describe real people and events: Men tend to prefer non-fiction.
   ▪ science fiction noun [uncountable] books about imaginary events in the future or space travel
   ▪ reference book noun [countable] a book such as a dictionary or encyclopedia, which you look at to find information
   ▪ textbook noun [countable] a book about a particular subject that you use in a classroom
   ▪ set book British English, course book British English noun [countable] a book that you have to study as part of your course
   ▪ guidebook noun [countable] a book telling visitors about a city or country
   ▪ picture book noun [countable] a book for children with many pictures in it
   ▪ hardcover/hardback noun [countable] a book that has a hard stiff cover
   ▪ paperback noun [countable] a book that has a paper cover
   ▪ biography noun [countable] a book about a real person’s life, written by another person
   ▪ autobiography noun [countable] a book that someone has written about their own life
   ▪ recipe book/cookery book British English (also cookbook American English) noun [countable] a book that tells you how to cook different meals

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textbook² adjective [only before noun]
used to describe something that is done exactly as it should be done, or happens exactly as it should happen
    textbook case/example
    The advertising campaign was a textbook example of how to sell a product.