名詞 tome:

1. a (usually) large and scholarly book

1. In place of the scholarly tome that many people expected of him, Mr White has produced a polemic, and not a very good one at that. As the woman said, we are not amused.
   懷特先生出版了一本并非人們所期待的博學(xué)的大部頭，而是一本有爭議的不是太好的小作品。正如這位婦女所說，我們對這很冷淡。
2. Don't name the place tome.
   別跟我提起那個地方。
3. A commercial book, not a scholarly tome.
   一本以賺錢為目的而不是學(xué)術(shù)性的書籍
4. `How dare you speak tome like that?' he thundered.
   ｀你竟敢這樣跟我說話?＇他喝道。