Bible
/ˈbaɪbl/noun
1the Bible
- the Christian scriptures, consisting of the Old and New Testaments基督教《圣经》（包括《旧约》和《新约》）。
1.1
the Bible
the Jewish scriptures, consisting of the Torah or Law, the Prophets, and the Hagiographa or Writings犹太教《圣经》（包括《律法》、《先知书》及《圣录》）。
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- （亦作bible）a copy of the Christian or Jewish scriptures（基督教或犹太教）《圣经》本子。
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- a particular edition or translation of the Bible《圣经》版本（或译本）：
the New English Bible
《新英文圣经》。
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bible
informal a book regarded as authoritative〈非正式〉权威著作, 经典：for many teachers Lehninger has been a biochemical bible.
对许多教师来讲, 《莱宁格尔》一直是生化方面的权威著作。
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- the scriptures of any religion宗教经文。
词源
Middle English: via Old French from ecclesiastical Latin biblia, from Greek （ta） biblia '(the) books', from biblion 'book', originally a diminutive of biblos 'papyrus, scroll', of Semitic origin.