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Examples:(cf Book of Songs) How fashion an ax handle? You need an ax—revise one or more editions of a text using an authoritative edition as a source book—"Collection of the Most Important Military Techniques", book published in 1044 during the Northern Song Dynasty—reference book (such as dictionary, almanac, gazetteer etc)—Nihonshoki or Chronicles of Japan (c. 720) book of mythology and history—book of the same name, one of the classics of Confucianism—Book of Amos, one of the books of the Nevi'im and of the Christian Old Testament—(old) book (made of bamboo strips tied together)—lit. opening a book is profitable (idiom); the benefits of education—ornately printed book meant as a collectors item rather than for reading (synonymous with corruption)—Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, US comic book series, first appeared in 1984, also films, video games etc—lit. push up paper prices in Luoyang (idiom); fig. sensational popularity of a new book—The Book of Family Names, anonymous Song dynasty reading primer listing 438 surnames—treasure-trove (often fig., book of treasured wisdom)—Joint Publishing, book store chain and publisher, founded in Hong Kong in 1948—one of the 64 trigrams of the Book of Changes—Aladdin, character in one of the tales in the The Book of One Thousand and One Nights—make day as night (idiom, from Book of Songs); fig. to prolong one's pleasure regardless of the hour—lit. as sweet as syrup (idiom, from Book of Songs); endure hardship gladly—different trades, worlds apart (idiom); sb. outside the profession, it is a closed book— |