0 a building, room, or organization that has a collection, especially of books, for people to read or borrow, usually without payment -- 圖書館；閱覽室
a public/university library 公共／大學圖書館
a library book 圖書館藏書
the Penguin Shakespeare Library 企鵝出版社莎士比亞文庫
The library has three levels, with a conference centre at ground level.
This library loans books, CDs and videotapes.
Jill spent the past few months doing research in the library.
A date stamp inside the front cover of a library book shows when it should be returned.
The council has decided that the local public libraries will close on Mondays.
I do not mean that the mere implements of knowledge - books, libraries, laboratories, seminars - distinguish man from the brute.
If resources were not generally tight, one would recommend major libraries to buy two copies and catalogue and shelve them in two appropriately different sections.
The fate of the monastic libraries serves in popular imagination as a classic example of mindless iconoclasm.
