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frontispiece

n.卷首插画,标题页,正面,正门

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frontispiece为短语/超纲词汇

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spec,spect=to see,to look(看见)

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frontispiece


/'frʌntɪspi:s; `frʌntɪs,pis/
n (usu sing 通常作单数) illustration at the beginning of a book, on the page opposite the title-page 卷首插图(在与书名页相对的一页上的).

frontispiece


n[C]
[Date: 1500-1600; Language: French;Origin: frontispice 'front of a building', from Late Latin frontispicium 'view of the front', from Latin frons 'front' + specere 'to look at']
a picture or photograph at the beginning of a book, usually opposite the page with the title on it