- 1大部頭的書、厚重的書
A tome is a book — but a big, heavy, serious-looking one. Think of a thick old volume with a hard cover that you need two hands to carry. The word tells you nothing good or bad about what is inside; it is about weight and seriousness of appearance. Because of that, 'tome' is almost always used with a little humour or a little tiredness: someone hands you a 700-page report and you say 'thanks for the tome'. Teachers say it about textbooks students are not going to finish. You would not call a paperback novel a tome, and you would never call a magazine one. Its very old meaning is different and worth knowing if you read older books: a tome was one volume of a work published in several volumes — volume 1, volume 2 — which is why the Greek root means 'a piece cut off'. That sense is mostly gone from daily English; today it is just 'a big fat book'. Note also that 'tome' is quite a literary word itself. Using it makes you sound slightly , which is part of the joke when people use it.
From the word’s history
From Latin tomus, from Greek tomos 'section, volume', from temnō 'to cut'.
源自希臘文 tomos「一卷」，來自 temnō「切」：切出來的一冊。
組成From Greek tomos, 'a section, a piece cut off' — from temnō, 'to cut'. A long work was cut into volumes; one of those pieces was a tomos. English took it through Latin tomus and French tome.
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
Tomename
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A surname.
tomenoun/təʊm/
- 1
One in a series of volumes.
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A large or scholarly book.
- The professor pulled a dusty old tome from the bookshelf.
- And Sam presents Tyrion with A Song Of Ice And Fire, a tome in which Tyrion’s own role, far from that of the clever hero or Machiavellian snake, doesn’t even exist.
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