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A written or typed document before it becomes a printed book — an author sends a finished manuscript to a publisher, who then turns it into an actual book. It's also used for very old, hand-written documents kept in museums or libraries.
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原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
manuscriptadj詞源 1/ˈmæn.jəˌskɹɪpt/
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Handwritten, or by extension manually typewritten, as opposed to being mechanically reproduced.
manuscriptnoun詞源 2/ˈmæn.jəˌskɹɪpt/
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A book, composition or any other document, written by hand (or manually typewritten), not mechanically reproduced.
- We read in history, that the beauty of an ancient manuscript tempted King Alfred, when a boy at his mother's knee, to learn the letters of the Saxon tongue.
- In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned.
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A single, original copy of a book, article, composition etc, written by hand or even printed, submitted as original for (copy-editing and) reproductive publication.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。