1.text的基本意思是“正文,本文”,指全书中与注释、图解、插图等相对而言的主体部分,是不可数名词。
2.text也可指“(演说、文章等的)原文、全文”,通常用作单数形式,其前常有定冠词the,其后常与介词of连用。
3.text还可作“版本”“教科书,课本”“《圣经》词句”等解,是可数名词。

It is useful to read the text early in the morning.清晨读课文很有用。
The illustrations were cleverly tied in with the text.插图与本文配合得很巧妙。
Children won't like this book because there is too much text and too few pictures.孩子们不喜欢这本书,因为它正文太多,插图太少。
Our newspaper is printing the full text of the President's speech.我们的报纸将刊登总统发言的全文。
This book is the pure and original text.这本书是未经篡改的真本。
Have you read the original text of “War and Peace”?你读过《战争与和平》的原文没有?
Hamlet is a set text for this year's English exam.《哈姆雷特》是今年英语考试的规定课本。
All the city schools use the same history text.全市的学校都使用同一种历史教科书。
In fact, there were no mathematical texts then.事实上,当时没有数学课本。
The text for my sermon today comes from Matthew 1∶4.我今天布道的经文出自《马太福音》第一章第四节。
He preached on a text from St. John's Gospel.他以《圣约翰福音》中的文句作讲道的题目。

text, article
这两个词都可指“文章”。其区别在于:text指一本书或杂志中的主要文字部分,而不是导言、图画或索引; article则指报纸或杂志中的一篇文章。例如:
The title of the text is “Once a thief, always a thief?”这篇课文的题目是《一次做贼,永远是贼吗?》
This is the heading of the article in today's newspaper.这就是今天报上那篇文章的标题。

［同义词］   argument, body, contents, matter, paragraph, passage, reader, sentence, source, subject, topic, words
［词源］  ＜中古拉丁语textus＜拉丁语text(编织成的东西)