英:[ˈkɔmənpleis buk]
美:[ˈkɑmənˌples bʊk]
英:[ˈkɔmənpleis buk]
美:[ˈkɑmənˌples bʊk]
摘录簿;
noun
a notebook in which one records quotations, poems, extracts, thoughts, and the like.
The first known use of commonplace book was in 1572
1 Garner, whose book reviews are a highlight of the Times culture pages, serves up a commonplace book composed of literary quotations, advice for living, recipes, and a heaping side order of memoir.
2 After his wife left him in 1642, John Milton processed it in his commonplace book, chronicling a reading binge about bad marriages.
3 Sometime around 1535, Sir Thomas Wyatt, a poet and ambassador in the court of King Henry VIII, had a scribe copy into his personal commonplace book a poem that Wyatt had composed.