Word familynounnoveldomnovelesenovelettenovelettistnovelismnovelistnovelizationnovelizernovellanoveltyadjectivenovelettishnovelishnovelisticnovelverbnovelize
novel• The movie is based on a novel by Anne Tyler.• I started to plan a novel.• My experience was limited largely to news and news feature writing until recently, when I ventured to write a novel.• a novel by John Irving• Keller's debutnovel is about a Korean woman who was sold into prostitution during World War II.• Butler has also written several historicalnovels under the pen-name of Jenny Melville.• For much of its course, the later novel takes all this for granted.• This is the study where Hemingway wrote the legendarynovels 'Death in the Afternoon' and 'For Whom the BellTolls'.• The new novel usually starts from where one is, seldom from a vision of a lost world or futureutopia.• As a life, it had the ingredients of a blockbusterromanticnovel or epiccostumefilm.• Johnston's nudes look like cover art for romantic novels.• Nathalie Sarraute's novels could be claimed to displayautonomy and reflexivity, despite her preoccupation with such a mimeticproject.• The new Sidney Shelton novel is to be adapted for film later in the year.• No such novel ever got written.• The novelcontains a number of important historical accidents which reveal the heavy hand of the author.
detective/romantic/historical etc novel• The reverse is also true; those who preferhistorical novels may also enjoy some Historical Romances.• Many readers of Historical Romances also readhistorical novels, broadening the field of selection immensely.• Tolstoy, Hemingway and Hardy, thrillers and spy stories, historical novels, light romances.• One last observation about the detective novel.• This is the detective novel or the crimenovel which makes its comments on life through humour rather than more directly.• One of the greatest historians for children is the author Jean Fritz who has written historical novels and picture books.• Tony Ballard was a painter and his wife, Zelah, wrote historical novels.
novel2 ●●○adjectiveadj [usually before noun]
NEWnot like anything known before, and unusual or interesting 新的;新颖的;新奇的
novel idea/approach/method etc• For example, when the legislature asked for a study of the personneldepartment, the change leaders took a novel approach.• The new regiment was the Army's first experiment in sending men into battle by this novel method.• Thus it was that the world took such note of Fleischmann and Pons' claim to have found a novel approach.• It was a novel idea and one we appreciated later when the weatherimproved.• Sometimes, however, novel ideas can boomerang.• It was such a novel idea it was hard to get your mind around it.• Law-and-order was one thing; the novel idea of the public sector providing parkland for the people was quite another.• It's a novel idea whose time has come.
ADJECTIVE | ... OF A NOVEL | VERB + NOVEL | NOVEL + VERB | PREPOSITIONADJECTIVE➤hardback, hardcover, paperback精裝本小說;平裝本小說➤debut小說處女作▸➤first, second, etc.第一部、第二部等小說◇a prize for the best first novel of the year年度最佳小說處女作獎➤latest, new, recent小說新作➤unfinished, unpublished未寫完的/未出版的小說▸➤good, great不錯的/優秀的小說◇One day I'm going to write the great American novel.有一天我會寫出美國最優秀的小說。➤original原創小說▸➤acclaimed評價高的小說◇his critically acclaimed novel他受評論家推崇的小說➤famous著名小說▸➤classic經典小說➤literary文學小說▸➤best-selling, popular暢銷/通俗小說➤dime (NAmE, old-fashioned) , pulp, trashy廉價小說;低俗小說▸➤contemporary, modern當代/現代小說▸➤19th-century, Victorian * 19 世紀/維多利亞時代小說▸➤adult, children's成人/兒童小說▸➤autobiographical自傳體小說➤adventure, comic, epic, epistolary, graphic, historical, romantic, satirical冒險/喜劇/史詩/書信體/繪本/歷史/言情/諷刺小說◇Samuel Richardson's novels are all epistolary in form.塞繆爾・理查森的小說都是書信體的。➤fantasy, gothic, horror, sci-fi, science-fiction奇幻小說;哥特小說;驚悚小說;科幻小說▸➤crime, detective, mystery, spy犯罪/偵探/懸疑/間諜小說... OF A NOVEL➤copy一本小說◇I took a copy of a Graham Greene novel on the train with me.我乘火車時隨身攜帶了一本格雷厄姆・格林的小說。VERB + NOVEL➤produce, write創作小說;寫小說▸➤publish出版小說▸➤read讀小說➤complete, finish完成/寫完小說◇She completed her first novel at the age of 53.她 53 歲時完成了第一部小說。➤inspire給小說創作靈感◇the events that inspired the novel給這部小說帶來創作靈感的事件➤translate翻譯小說▸➤adapt改編小說◇the process of adapting the novel for television把小說改變成電視劇的過程➤review評論小說NOVEL + VERB➤be based on sth小說以⋯為素材◇The novel was based on a true life story.這部小說是根據真人真事寫成的。➤be set, take place小說故事的發生地點設在⋯;小說故事發生於⋯◇The novel was set in a small town in France.這部小說的故事發生在法國的一個小鎮。PREPOSITION➤novel about有關⋯的小說◇a novel about growing up一部關於成長的小說novel
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VERBS | ADVERBVERBS➤be, sound具創意;聽上去新奇◇The plan sounded rather novel.這個計劃聽上去挺有新意。ADVERB➤extremely, fairly, very, etc.極為/相當/非常新奇▸➤completely, totally, etc.極其/十分新穎▸➤relatively比較新奇▸➤essentially基本上是新奇的