Epistle
[ɪ'pɪs(ə)l] or [ɪ'pɪsl]
解释:
(noun.) a book of the New Testament written in the form of a letter from an Apostle.
(noun.) a specially long, formal letter.
埃斯特尔校对--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A writing directed or sent to a person or persons; a written communication; a letter; -- applied usually to formal, didactic, or elegant letters.
(n.) One of the letters in the New Testament which were addressed to their Christian brethren by Apostles.
(v. t.) To write; to communicate in a letter or by writing.
格特鲁德编辑
同义词及近义词:
n. Letter, note, written communication.
校对:谢尔比
解释:
n. a writing sent to one a letter: esp. a letter to an individual or church from an apostle as the Epistles of Paul: the extract from one of the apostolical epistles read as part of the communion service.—v.i. (Milt.) to preface.—ns. Epis′tler Epis′toler a letter-writer; Epis′tler one who reads the liturgical epistle in the communion service.—adjs. Epis′tolary Epis′tolatory Epistol′ic -al pertaining to or consisting of epistles or letters: suitable to an epistle: contained in letters.—n. Epis′tolet a short letter.—v.i. Epis′tolise to write a letter.—ns. Epis′tolist a writer of letters; Epistolog′raphy letter-writing.
编辑:史蒂夫
例句:
- When Briggs had read the epistle out, her patroness laughed more. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- The dolls' dressmaker found it delicious to trace the screaming and smarting of Little Eyes in the distorted writing of this epistle. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- I will not attempt to describe all I felt on the receipt of this first epistle from Lord Ponsonby. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- Mr. Pickwick opened the epistle. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- Here is a very fashionable epistle, I remarked as he entered. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- The rest of this eloquent epistle may be dispensed with. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- Would you believe, reader, this eloquent epistle obtained me no answer during three long days? 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- I will again take away that single epistle: being mine, I think I have a right to reclaim it. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- They are not open, fervent, eloquent epistles, breathing nothing but the language of affectionate attachment. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- Documents of various kinds, including gospels and apostolic epistles, circulated widely. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- I compared her placid epistles with the burning ones of Adrian. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- The Emperor Frederick II, with his epistles to his fellow princes, was its forerunner. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- No wonder that letters addressed to people here had never received an answer: as well despatch epistles to a vault in a church aisle. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- But we must refer the reader to the Acts of the Apostles and the Pauline Epistles for an account of Paul's mission and teaching. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- In answer to this nervous paragraph, one of Her Grace's epistles, I beg leave to correct the word subjugation. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
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