汉英词典
Chinese-English Dictionary
MEANING OF 手不释卷
手不释卷 (手不釋卷)
lit. always with a book in hand (idiom) / fig. (of a student or scholar) diligent and hardworking
释 lay down / 卷 Refers to books / The book does not leave your hands / Describes hardworking and studious
手执书本没有放下的时候。形容勤读不倦。
shǒu bù/bú () shì juǎn/juàn
EXAMPLE SENTENCES

9看笑话:一位学者在新婚燕尔之际,仍然手不释卷地读书。

9 see joke: a scholar is in newly-married swallow er during, still very diligent ground reads.

他是那么酷爱读书,你总是可以看到他手不释卷

He has such a big appetite for reading that you never see him without a book.

后来戎马一生,他也常手不释卷,这才造就了这一位伟大的诗人。

Later, army horse life, he often Shoubushijuan this created a great poet this.

马(马马马)手不释卷的祖父想到了用一个古雅的方法解决这个普遍存在的问题。

Ma Cheng's book-loving grandfather came up with an elegant solution to this common problem.

留神看一看地铁车厢里或飞机、火车上的情景,呆坐、聊天、打瞌睡的少见,手不释卷的居多。

Careful look at the subway car or plane, the train scene, rare sit, chat, doze off, with the majority.

一点儿也不会——男孩像他的爸爸一样,手不释卷,看到烂熟于胸,把它当作人生经历的概览,然后用书上最后一句话作为座右铭,写在学年鉴上。

Not a bit—the boy grasped it to his heart as his father had, as theRough Guide to his experience, and used its last lines as his yearbook motto.