Essay

['eseɪ] or ['ɛse]

解释:

(noun.) a tentative attempt.

(noun.) an analytic or interpretive literary composition.

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解释:

(n.) An effort made, or exertion of body or mind, for the performance of anything; a trial; attempt; as, to make an essay to benefit a friend.

(n.) A composition treating of any particular subject; -- usually shorter and less methodical than a formal, finished treatise; as, an essay on the life and writings of Homer; an essay on fossils, or on commerce.

(n.) An assay. See Assay, n.

(n.) To exert one's power or faculties upon; to make an effort to perform; to attempt; to endeavor; to make experiment or trial of; to try.

(n.) To test the value and purity of (metals); to assay. See Assay.

编辑:梅齐

同义词及近义词：

v. a. Attempt, try, endeavor.

n. [1]. Attempt, trial, endeavor, effort, struggle, aim.[2]. Tract, dissertation, treatise, disquisition, brief discourse.

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同义词及反义词：

[See ASSAY]

[See ESSAY_and_DISQUISITION]

手打:瓦内萨

解释:

n. a trial: an experiment: a written composition less elaborate than a treatise.—v.t. Essay′ to try: to attempt: to make experiment of:—pr.p. essay′ing; pa.p. essayed′.—ns. Essay′er Es′sayist one who essays: a writer of essays; Essayette′ Es′saykin a little essay.—adjs. Es′sayish; Essayis′tic.

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