Quarto
['kwɔːtəʊ] or ['kwɔrto]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the size of a book whose pages are made by folding a sheet of paper twice to form four leaves.
克林特手打--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Having four leaves to the sheet; of the form or size of a quarto.
(n.) Originally, a book of the size of the fourth of sheet of printing paper; a size leaves; in present usage, a book of a square or nearly square form, and usually of large size.
克莉丝汀編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- My quarto edition of the same, 'Arts et Metiers', I give to the Library Company of Philadelphia. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- The account of the French taxes, which takes up three volumes in quarto, may be regarded as perfectly authentic. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- He left behind him two quarto volumes of manuscript, of his own poetry, consisting of fugitive pieces addressed to his friends. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- I suppose they are those heavy ones, sir,' said Oliver, pointing to some large quartos, with a good deal of gilding about the binding. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
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