Essay
['eseɪ] or ['ɛse]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a tentative attempt.
(noun.) an analytic or interpretive literary composition.
亚瑟校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(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.
編輯:梅齐
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. Attempt, try, endeavor.
n. [1]. Attempt, trial, endeavor, effort, struggle, aim.[2]. Tract, dissertation, treatise, disquisition, brief discourse.
安琪編輯
同義詞及反義詞:
[See ASSAY]
[See ESSAY_and_DISQUISITION]
手打:瓦内萨
解釋/意思:
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.
巴里整理
例句/造句/用法:
- He wrote an essay on his invention, and circulated it among his friends and teachers. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- It was neither tale nor poem, neither essay nor history; it neither sung, nor related, not discussed. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Wells' little essay: Skepticism of the Instrument. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- James made it articulate in his essay on The Moral Equivalent of War. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- That worthy lady being unable to obtain one, and being steadfastly denied admission, Mr Meagles besought Arthur to essay once more what he could do. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- But in 1695, the common price of silver bullion was six shillings and fivepence an ounce, {Lowndes's Essay on the Silver Coin, 68. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Did an elderly gentleman essay to stop the progress of the ball, it rolled between his legs or slipped between his fingers. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Readers of the Fabian Essays know Mr. Wallas and appreciate the work of his group. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- But we may well consider these reconstructions as contributory essays and experiments in the general constructive effort. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- These essays, then, are an attempt to sketch an attitude towards statecraft. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- There, at least, no rich people are buying anything, and no military men are reading essays on the next war. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Baden Powell, in his Essays on the Unity of Worlds, 1855. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- I write essays; and, with deliberate forgerysign to them my pupils' names, and boast of them as their work. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Two or three essays read in this society were published. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Once more he essayed the effort, but a qualm of nausea overwhelmed him. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- It must be by your management then, gallant yeoman, said Ivanhoe; for each hint I have essayed to give him serves only to induce him to prolong it. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- But even in the midst of that paroxysm, he still essayed to repeat his favourite introduction of himself, 'Pa-ancks the gi-ipsy, fortune-telling. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Mrs. Corney twice essayed to speak: and twice failed. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- It was a long climb up the face of the building, and one fraught with much danger, but there was no other way, and so I essayed the task. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- Which makes three,' observed Mr. Bumble, essaying a stroke of facetiousness. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
手打:威尔