letter
- n. 信;字母,文字;證書;文學(xué),學(xué)問;字面意義
- vt. 寫字母于
- vi. 寫印刷體字母
- n. (Letter)人名;(英)萊特
詞態(tài)變化
中文詞源
來(lái)自拉丁語(yǔ)litera,字母,文字,詞源同literal.引申詞義信件。
英英釋意
- 1. a written message addressed to a person or organization;
- "mailed an indignant letter to the editor"
- 2. the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech;
- "his grandmother taught him his letters"
- 3. a strictly literal interpretation (as distinct from the intention);
- "he followed instructions to the letter"
- "he obeyed the letter of the law"
- 4. an award earned by participation in a school sport;
- "he won letters in three sports"
- 5. owner who lets another person use something (housing usually) for hire
英文詞源
- letter
- letter: [13] The distant ancestry of the word letter has never been satisfactorily explained. One possible candidate as a source that has been put forward is Greek diphthérai ‘writing tablets’. But the earliest precursor that can be positively identified is Latin littera. This meant ‘a(chǎn)lphabetic symbol’, or in the plural ‘document’ and ‘epistle’. English acquired it via Old French lettre. Also from Latin littera are English literature and obliterate [16], which means etymologically ‘remove letters’.
=> literature, obliterate - letter (n.1)
- c. 1200, "graphic symbol, alphabetic sign, written character," from Old French letre (10c., Modern French lettre) "character, letter; missive, note," in plural, "literature, writing, learning," from Latin littera (also litera) "letter of the alphabet," of uncertain origin, perhaps via Etruscan from Greek diphthera "tablet," with change of d- to l- as in lachrymose. In this sense it replaced Old English bocst?f, literally "book staff" (compare German Buchstabe "letter, character," from Old High German buohstab, from Proto-Germanic *bok-staba-m).
Latin littera also meant "a writing, document, record," and in plural litter? "a letter, epistle," a sense first attested in English early 13c., replacing Old English ?rendgewrit, literally "errand-writing." The Latin plural also meant "literature, books," and figuratively "learning, liberal education, schooling" (see letters). School letter in sports, attested by 1908, were said to have been first awarded by University of Chicago football coach Amos Alonzo Stagg. Expression to the letter "precisely" is from 1520s (earlier as after the letter). Letter-perfect is from 1845, originally in theater jargon, in reference to an actor knowing the lines exactly. Letter-press, in reference to matter printed from relief surfaces, is from 1840. - letter (v.)
- "to write in letters," 1660s, from letter (n.1). Earlier it meant "to instruct" (mid-15c.). Related: Lettered; lettering.
- letter (n.2)
- "one who lets" in any sense, c. 1400, agent noun from let (v.).
同義詞辨析
alphabet, letter, character, script
這些名詞均有"字母"之意。
alphabet:指整個(gè)字母系統(tǒng)或一種語(yǔ)言的字母表,不表單個(gè)字母。
letter:指單個(gè)的字母。
character:通常指漢語(yǔ)的方塊字,也指字符。
script:指書寫或印刷的字母。
letter, note, correspondence, message
這些名詞均有"信"之意。
letter: 最普通用詞,泛指一切形式的書信,尤指郵寄的信。
note: 指內(nèi)容直截了當(dāng)?shù)亩绦呕虮銞l,正式或非正式均可。
correspondence: 集合名詞,指全部來(lái)往信件。
message: 指書信、口信、電報(bào)等。
考試真題
- The tests are designed to detect subtle ( ' , 細(xì)微的) changes in mental function, and involve solving puzzles, recalling words and details from stories, and identifying patterns in collections of letters and symbols.
出自-2016年6月閱讀原文
- If you are a graduate student, you may depend on your adviser for many things, including help with improving grades, acquiring financial support, forming an examining committee and getting letters of recommendation.
出自-2016年6月聽力原文
- It is impossible to know which high schools are 'the best' in the nation, "their letter read.
出自-2012年6月閱讀原文
- Send in an application letter.
出自-2013年6月聽力原文
- Despite the growing importance of computers, however, there will always be a place and need for the personal letter.
出自-2010年12月聽力原文
- Complaining in person or by letter is generally more effective.
出自-2010年6月聽力原文
- If your complaint doesn't require an immediate response, it often helps to complain by letter
出自-2010年6月聽力原文
- If you have an appliance that doesn't work, send a letter to the store that sold it.
出自-2010年6月聽力原文
- What should you do if you make a complaint by letter
出自-2010年6月聽力原文
- "Say, you know, this is the best student I've ever had," says Kuheli Dutt, a social scientist and diversity officer at Columbia University's Lamont campus. "Compare those excellent letters with a merely good letter: 'The candidate was productive, or intel
2017年12月四級(jí)真題(第二套)閱讀 Section C
- A letter written by Charles Darwin in 1875 has been returned to the Smithsonian Institution (檔案館) by the FBI after being stolen twice.
2018年6月四級(jí)真題(第二套)閱讀 Section C
- But instead of bringing families together, Aderhold's letter revealed a divide in the district, which has 9,700 students, and one that broke down roughly along racial lines.
2018年6月四級(jí)真題(第一套)閱讀 Section B
- Compare those excellent letters with a merely good letter: The candidate was productive,or intelligent,or a solid scientist or something that's clearly solid praise, but nothing that singles out the candidate as exceptional or one of a kind.
2017年12月四級(jí)真題(第二套)閱讀 Section C
- If you have a G-mail account, you can create, save and send tables in addition to written documents like your cover letter and resume.
2018年6月四級(jí)真題(第一套)聽力 Section C
- Only apply for positions you're qualified for, and make each application count, personalizing each cover letter and updating and editing your resume.
2018年6月四級(jí)真題(第一套)聽力 Section C
- Other choices, in descending order of personalization, are: a real-time phone call, a voice-mail message, a handwritten note, a typewritten letter and the most unfriendly is email.
2018年12月四級(jí)真題(第二套)閱讀 Section A
- The FBI worked closely with the Archives to determine that the letter was both authentic and definitely Smithsonian's property.
2018年6月四級(jí)真題(第二套)閱讀 Section C
- The letter was written by Darwin to thank an American geologist, Dr.Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden, for sending him copies of his research into the geology of the region that would become Yellowstone National Park.
2018年6月四級(jí)真題(第二套)閱讀 Section C
- The word serendipity was coined by Horace Walpole in an 1854 letter, from a tale of three princes who 4twere always making discoveries, by accident, of things they were not in search of.
2017年12月四級(jí)真題(第二套)閱讀 Section B
- Their art crime team recovered the letter but were unable to press charges because the time of limitations had ended.
2018年6月四級(jí)真題(第二套)閱讀 Section C
- That letter, which includes several concerns Morgan has with the plan, was originally obtained by The Commercial Appeal in Memphis.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- Morgan notified the Haslam administration of his decision to opt out in a letter sent last week.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- In his resignation letter, Morgan called the reorganization unworkable.
出自-2017年6月閱讀原文
- Well, the letter mentions 20,000 pounds, but I don't know if they might settle for us.
出自-2013年6月聽力原文
- Present a new letter of reference.
出自-2012年12月聽力原文
- Send Professor Smith a letter
出自-2012年12月聽力原文
- Three letters of recommendation are required to apply to graduate schools.
出自-2012年12月聽力原文
- Submit no more than three letters
出自-2012年12月聽力原文
- I think your boss would be very upset when he gets your letter of resignation.
出自-2010年12月聽力原文
- I got two letters this morning with job offers, one from the Polytechnic, and the other from the Language School in Pistoia, Italy.
出自-2010年6月聽力原文
- For instance, the letter A was ant or apple or ax.
2018年6月六級(jí)真題(第二套)聽力 Section B
- No, and he was away before I could get hold of the letter.
2017年12月六級(jí)真題(第二套)聽力 Section A
- A team of researchers trained three rhesus monkeys to associate 26 clearly different symbols consisting of numbers and selective letters with 0-25 drops of water or juice as a reward.
2019年高考英語(yǔ)全國(guó)卷3 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文
- Almost a month ago, he bought popular word game that used little pieces of wood with different letters on them.
2015年高考英語(yǔ)廣東卷 閱讀理解 閱讀A 原文
- Another way to hide a message is to use symbols to stand for specific letters of the alphabet.
2016年高考英語(yǔ)全國(guó)卷1 閱讀理解 七選五 原文
- At last they had seen a half-written letter in the pile in which my husband had given his new telephone number to a friend.
2014年高考英語(yǔ)全國(guó)卷2 閱讀理解 閱讀A 原文
- But then we got an official letter and we were blown away.
2019年高考英語(yǔ)全國(guó)卷2 語(yǔ)法填空 原文
- For example, the first letters of "my elephant eats too many eels" spell out the hidden message "meet me".
2016年高考英語(yǔ)全國(guó)卷1 閱讀理解 七選五 原文
- Here are some letters from our readers.
2015年高考英語(yǔ)湖南卷 閱讀理解 閱讀A 原文
- I sent letters to everyone I knew, telling them about my project.
2017年高考英語(yǔ)天津卷 完形填空 原文
- If we substitute a number for each letter, the message "meet me" would read 13 5 5 20 13 5.
2016年高考英語(yǔ)全國(guó)卷1 閱讀理解 七選五 原文
- In any language, some letters are used more than others.
2016年高考英語(yǔ)全國(guó)卷1 閱讀理解 七選五 選項(xiàng)
- Later that morning, Dario suggested that they write a letter to their neighbors and apologize for their playing.
2015年高考英語(yǔ)北京卷 完形填空 原文
- Michael Horan wrote the letter mainly to show that some pedestrians are a threat to road safety.
2015年高考英語(yǔ)湖南卷 閱讀理解 閱讀A 題設(shè)
- My interest was aroused only by the fact that the word "poems" appeared in big, hot pink letters.
2016年高考英語(yǔ)上海卷 閱讀理解 閱讀A 原文
- On his 80th birthday, I sent him a letter, noting the things we all should be thankful for — good health, good friends and good outcomes.
2015年高考英語(yǔ)天津卷 閱讀表達(dá) 原文
- Over the years, the game had been produced using letters in different sizes and game boards in different colors.
2015年高考英語(yǔ)廣東卷 閱讀理解 閱讀A 原文
- Several years ago I received a letter from seventeen-year-old kerry, who described herself as a world-class fault-finder, almost always bothered by things.
2015年高考英語(yǔ)福建卷 完形填空 原文
- Tanis wrote this letter in order to show how grateful she was to the center.
2016年高考英語(yǔ)北京卷 閱讀理解 閱讀A 題設(shè)
- The girl's parents got rashid's phone number from a letter in his papers.
2014年高考英語(yǔ)全國(guó)卷2 閱讀理解 閱讀A 題設(shè)
- The letter ended with a personal request: "Boy, on my next birthday, just tell me to wake up and get going, because I will have one less year to do things and there are ten million things waiting to be done."
2015年高考英語(yǔ)天津卷 閱讀表達(dá) 原文
- The three letters present viewpoints on real source of road danger.
2015年高考英語(yǔ)湖南卷 閱讀理解 閱讀A 題設(shè)
- The underlined word "they" in the third letter refers to cyclists.
2015年高考英語(yǔ)湖南卷 閱讀理解 閱讀A 題設(shè)
- You can hide a message by having the first letters of each word spell it out.
2016年高考英語(yǔ)全國(guó)卷1 閱讀理解 七選五 原文
- You might represent each letter with a number, for example, let's number the letters of the alphabet, in order, from 1 to 26.
2016年高考英語(yǔ)全國(guó)卷1 閱讀理解 七選五 原文
- The White House argued that Arizona's laws conflicted with its enforcement priorities, even if state laws complied with federal statutes to the letter.
出自-2013年考研閱讀原文
- In 2010, leading congressional Democrats and Republicans sent letters to the AAAS asking that it identify actions that could be taken by “federal, state and local governments, universities, foundations, educators, individual benefactors and others” to “maintain national excellence in humanities and social scientific scholarship and education”.
出自-2014年考研閱讀原文
- The popularity of these novels consolidated Dichens’ as a nationally and internationally celebrated man of letters.
出自-2017年考研閱讀原文
- Also missing is any discussion of eliminating Saturday letter delivery.
出自-2018年考研閱讀原文
- Many Americans regard the jury system as a concrete expression of crucial democratic values, including the principles that all citizens who meet minimal qualifications of age and literacy are equally competent to serve on juries; that jurors should be sel
2010年考研真題(英語(yǔ)二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ
詞組搭配
to the letter
To the last detail; exactly
嚴(yán)格按照文字;精確地
followed instructions to the letter.
不折不扣地遵照指示
實(shí)用場(chǎng)景例句
- a business/thank-you, etc. letter
- 商業(yè)信函、感謝信等
牛津詞典
- a letter of complaint
- 投訴書
牛津詞典
- (British English)to post a letter
- 寄信
牛津詞典
- (North Amercian English)to mail a letter
- 寄信
牛津詞典
- There's a letter for you from your mother.
- 有你母親的一封來(lái)信。
牛津詞典
- You will be notified by letter .
- 將用信函通知你。
牛津詞典
- ‘B ’ is the second letter of the alphabet.
- b是字母表的第二個(gè)字母。
牛津詞典
- Write your name in capital/block letters .
- 用大寫字母書寫姓名。
牛津詞典
- They insist on sticking to the letter of the law.
- 他們堅(jiān)持嚴(yán)守法律的字面意義。
牛津詞典
- I followed your instructions to the letter.
- 我是嚴(yán)格遵照你的指示辦的。
牛津詞典
- the stars lettered Alpha and Beta
- 以α和β命名的星
牛津詞典
- a black banner lettered in white
- 印有白色字母的黑色橫幅
牛津詞典
- I had received a letter from a very close friend.
- 我收到一個(gè)很要好的朋友的來(lái)信。
柯林斯高階英語(yǔ)詞典
- ...a letter of resignation...
- 辭職信
柯林斯高階英語(yǔ)詞典
- ...the letters of the alphabet.
- 字母表中的字母
柯林斯高階英語(yǔ)詞典
- ...the letter E.
- 字母E
柯林斯高階英語(yǔ)詞典
- Valerie earned letters in three sports: volleyball, basketball, and field hockey.
- 瓦萊麗在排球、籃球和曲棍球三個(gè)項(xiàng)目上獲得了佩戴校名首字母標(biāo)志的榮譽(yù)。
柯林斯高階英語(yǔ)詞典
- Burkoth lettered in soccer.
- 伯考思在足球上獲得了佩戴校名首字母標(biāo)志的榮譽(yù)。
柯林斯高階英語(yǔ)詞典
- They had stuck to the letter of the law and in my view they should be ashamed.
- 他們死摳法律字眼。依我看他們應(yīng)該感到慚愧。
柯林斯高階英語(yǔ)詞典
- She obeyed his instructions to the letter.
- 她分毫不差地遵照他的吩咐去做。
柯林斯高階英語(yǔ)詞典
- In contrast, needle N productivity of larch seedlings exhibited a negative relationship with N supply level.
- 與全株氮生產(chǎn)力的變化不同, 落葉松幼苗的葉氮生產(chǎn)力與供氮水平呈負(fù)相關(guān).
期刊摘選
- Take the letter to him [ her ; them ].
- 把信給 人家 送去.
《現(xiàn)代漢英綜合大詞典》
- The letter ended on a cheerful note.
- 這封信以樂觀的口氣收尾.
《現(xiàn)代漢英綜合大詞典》
- She guessed that the letter had something to do with her husband.
- 她猜想這封信與她丈夫有關(guān).
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