英语释义

1. without books having no books
Accidentally or on purpose, the British burned the books as well as the building in the War of 1812. Congress went bookless for a few months until, after much debate, it voted $23,950 to buy most of ex-President Thomas Jefferson's personal library.
— Richard L. Williams, Smithsonian, April 1980 There's a physicality to books that you don't appreciate until they're not there anymore. Don't get me wrong. I'm not stupid. I know that we're heading for a bookless society.
— Will Manley, Booklist, August 2001 Imagine a library that is not only bookless but is not necessarily tied to a building, one that takes its personnel and services to patrons rather than expecting them to come to it.
— Jennifer Howard, The Chronicle of Higher Education, 8 May 2011

2. unlearned, unscholarly

片语

unlettered未受教育的；文盲的；无字的；无学问的

The Bookless Library无纸图书馆

The bookless bookshelf书架有限书无限

bookless accounting system无帐薄会计系统

The Bookless Planet没有书的星球

untutored未受教育的；粗野的；天真的

英汉例句

• If our educational system were fashioned after its bookless past we would have the most democratic form of 「college」 imaginable.

  如果教育是以前无书的风格我们会获得学院派想象的那样最大的民主形式。

• The sciences are the perfect place to test bookless libraries, librarians say.

  科学是测试无书图书馆的最佳领域，图书馆员说。