close the book on

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To stop worrying about or trying to do something about; to ignore. idiomatic
    — Roth's continued productivity ensures that we can't yet close the book on his career.
  2. To finish; to bring to an end. idiomatic
    — We do not presume that our reconstruction will close the book on the evolutionary origins of great ape cognition.

词形变化

closes the book on present,singular,third-person closing the book on participle,present closed the book on participle,past closed the book on past

词源

By analogy to closing an accounting journal.
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