汉英词典
Chinese-English Dictionary
MEANING OF 大部头
大部头 (大部頭)
voluminous work / multiple-volume work / profound book
dà/dài () tóu/tou
EXAMPLE SENTENCES

该出版社准备出一本大部头新版本。

The press is ready to turn out a huge new edition.

他正在研读一个大部头的哲学书。

He is reading a great philosophy book.

她没有什么朋友,喜欢看《水浒传》这些大部头

She is no friend, like to see "Water Margin" These are voluminous.

她以前喜欢的小说是大部头的历史爱情故事。

Her taste in fiction was for chunky historical romances.

他那本大部头著作是由他以前写的那本小书扩充而成的。

His big book is an expansion of the little book he wrote before.

比方说,如果你不愿广播或印刷斯达克的大部头声明,为什么你会在网络上发表呢?

For example, if you would not broadcast or print large sections of Stack's manifesto, why would you publish it online?

像这样大部头的巨作就务必会让读者为了回顾之前的剧情而作痛苦漫长的寻找工作,因此在卷首作个前情概要会比较人性化一些。

In a work this size it's the reader who must embark on a harrowing quest, and a summary up front would be useful.

翻出那些狄更斯、奥斯汀和霍桑的大部头书吧,还要有意地找一些难懂的书来读,例如威廉姆·福克纳的《喧哗与骚动》和詹姆斯·乔伊斯的《尤利西斯》。

Seek out the tomes of Dickens, Austen, and Hawthorne. Deliberately find books that are hard to read such as William Faulkner's the Sound and the Fury and James Joyce's Ulysses.