英：[ˈkɒləfən]
美：[ˈkɑləfən]
colophon如何读
colophon是什么意思
- n.书籍的末页；出版商商标
- Colophon.
- n.克勒芬(小亚细亚古希腊一座城市)
colophon自然拼读
col·o·phon
ka l fan [or] ka l fn
colophon英英释义
noun
an inscription at the end of a book or manuscript usually with facts about its production
an identifying mark used by a printer or a publisher
geographical name
ancient city of western Asia Minor in Lydia
colophon词源中文解释
"书的结尾处出版者的题词"，1774年，源自晚期拉丁语 colophon，来自希腊语 kolophōn，意为“顶峰，最后的润色”（来自 PIE 词根 *kel-（2）“突出； 山丘”）。“早期的 colophon 提供了现在在标题页上提供的信息”[OED]。
colophon词源英文解释
Latin, from Greek kolophōn summit, finishing touch; perhaps akin to Latin culmen top — more at hill
The first known use of colophon was in 1501
colophon 例句
1 Headings and colophon are printed in red, and the general effect is extremely rich and handsome.
2 In many of the libraries the monk in charge was quite intelligent about the dates of the MSS., and was able to read the often perplexing colophon in which the century and indiction were recorded.
3 He revelled in all the mysteries of watermarks, title-pages, colophons, catch-words and the like; yet he treated bibliography as an important science.
4 Like the colophon actually means like these are the people who made it.
5 A colophon gives the year of the original MS. as A. Mart.
6 The colophon is in Italian, and the printer’s mark is in red.
7 The editor's eminent services to Coptic literature are well known, but the titles and colophon do not suggest any high expectations of the value of this edition to the scholar.
8 But the Fust and Schoeffer colophons tell us more than this, for while they make no mention of Gutenberg they never claim the invention of printing as their own achievement.
9 But we do not touch firm ground until we come to the famous Psalter of 1457, the colophon of which leaves us in no doubt as to its typographical authorship.
10 The colophon, moreover, is always found on the last page, and sometimes takes the form of an inverted pyramid.
11 The handscroll’s social dynamics were also reflected in the colophon, or end papers, where owners and visiting viewers would write clever commentary.
12 Any student of colophons — or of those pull-down menus listing digital typefaces — will recognize the name Bodoni, the 18th-century printer and immensely influential type designer.
13 When a reader starts noticing the same colophon on all their favorite books they may realize this publisher appeals to their reading preferences and may follow future publications.
当一位读者在自己最喜欢的许多本书上发现同一个版权标记时，他就会意识到，这个出版社出的书很符合他的阅读兴趣，日后就有可能追踪这个出版社所出的书。
14 In the 16th century, this is echoed in a poem on the colophon of a hand scroll painted by Lu Zhi in 1549.
15 Contains the colophon of a manuscript item: that is, a statement providing information regarding the date, place, agency, or reason for production of the manuscript.
包含一个手稿项目的版权页标记：即提供日期、地点、代理机构、或手稿产生原因等资讯的声明。
16 Title and colophon identical except for slight differences in spelling.
17 It is impossible to read a colophon such as this without feeling ourselves in the very atmosphere of the printing house, with the various members of the printer’s family at work around us.
18 But if he read aright each line, Interpreting the scheme divine, 'Twill be most fair to look upon From title-leaf to colophon.
19 At the end there occurs a colophon in Irish which is certainly as old as the 9th century.
20 We can imagine an inventor who, despite his invention, remained profoundly unsuccessful, writing 53 the opening words of this colophon, and it is not easy to see their appropriateness to any one else.