letter

英[ˈletə(r)]
美[ˈletər]

基本释义

n.
信; 证书,许可证; 字母,文字; 字面意义
vt.
用字母标明; 写字母于; 加标题
vi.
写印刷体字母

词性变化

实用例句

a business/thank-you, etc. letter

商业信函、感谢信等

牛津词典

a letter of complaint

投诉书

牛津词典

(British English)to post a letter

寄信

牛津词典

(North Amercian English)to mail a letter

寄信

牛津词典

There's a letter for you from your mother.

有你母亲的一封来信。

牛津词典

You will be notified by letter .

将用信函通知你。

牛津词典

‘B ’ is the second letter of the alphabet.

b是字母表的第二个字母。

牛津词典

Write your name in capital/block letters .

用大写字母书写姓名。

牛津词典

They insist on sticking to the letter of the law.

他们坚持严守法律的字面意义。

牛津词典

I followed your instructions to the letter.

我是严格遵照你的指示办的。

牛津词典

the stars lettered Alpha and Beta

以α和β命名的星

牛津词典

a black banner lettered in white

印有白色字母的黑色横幅

牛津词典

I had received a letter from a very close friend.

我收到一个很要好的朋友的来信。

...a letter of resignation...

辞职信

...the letters of the alphabet.

字母表中的字母

...the letter E.

字母E

Valerie earned letters in three sports: volleyball, basketball, and field hockey.

瓦莱丽在排球、篮球和曲棍球三个项目上获得了佩戴校名首字母标志的荣誉。

Burkoth lettered in soccer.

伯考思在足球上获得了佩戴校名首字母标志的荣誉。

They had stuck to the letter of the law and in my view they should be ashamed.

他们死抠法律字眼。依我看他们应该感到惭愧。

She obeyed his instructions to the letter.

她分毫不差地遵照他的吩咐去做。

In contrast, needle N productivity of larch seedlings exhibited a negative relationship with N supply level.

与全株氮生产力的变化不同, 落叶松幼苗的叶氮生产力与供氮水平呈负相关.

期刊摘选

Take the letter to him [ her ; them ].

把信给 人家 送去.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

The letter ended on a cheerful note.

这封信以乐观的口气收尾.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

She guessed that the letter had something to do with her husband.

她猜想这封信与她丈夫有关.

《简明英汉词典》

真题例句

The tests are designed to detect subtle 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月阅读原文

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月听力原文

It is impossible to know which high schools are 'the best' in the nation, "their letter read.

出自-2012年6月阅读原文

Send in an application letter.

出自-2013年6月听力原文

Despite the growing importance of computers, however, there will always be a place and need for the personal letter.

出自-2010年12月听力原文

Complaining in person or by letter is generally more effective.

出自-2010年6月听力原文

If your complaint doesn't require an immediate response, it often helps to complain by letter

出自-2010年6月听力原文

If you have an appliance that doesn't work, send a letter to the store that sold it.

出自-2010年6月听力原文

What should you do if you make a complaint by letter

出自-2010年6月听力原文

"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月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

A letter written by Charles Darwin in 1875 has been returned to the Smithsonian Institution (档案馆) by the FBI after being stolen twice.

2018年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 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月四级真题(第一套)阅读 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月四级真题(第二套)阅读 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月四级真题(第一套)听力 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月四级真题(第一套)听力 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月四级真题(第二套)阅读 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月四级真题(第二套)阅读 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月四级真题(第二套)阅读 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月四级真题(第二套)阅读 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月四级真题(第二套)阅读 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月阅读原文

Morgan notified the Haslam administration of his decision to opt out in a letter sent last week.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

In his resignation letter, Morgan called the reorganization unworkable.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

Well, the letter mentions 20,000 pounds, but I don't know if they might settle for us.

出自-2013年6月听力原文

Present a new letter of reference.

出自-2012年12月听力原文

Send Professor Smith a letter

出自-2012年12月听力原文

Three letters of recommendation are required to apply to graduate schools.

出自-2012年12月听力原文

Submit no more than three letters

出自-2012年12月听力原文

I think your boss would be very upset when he gets your letter of resignation.

出自-2010年12月听力原文

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月听力原文

For instance, the letter A was ant or apple or ax.

2018年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section B

No, and he was away before I could get hold of the letter.

2017年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 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年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

Almost a month ago, he bought popular word game that used little pieces of wood with different letters on them.

2015年高考英语广东卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

Another way to hide a message is to use symbols to stand for specific letters of the alphabet.

2016年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 七选五 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年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

But then we got an official letter and we were blown away.

2019年高考英语全国卷2 语法填空 原文

For example, the first letters of "my elephant eats too many eels" spell out the hidden message "meet me".

2016年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 七选五 原文

Here are some letters from our readers.

2015年高考英语湖南卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

I sent letters to everyone I knew, telling them about my project.

2017年高考英语天津卷 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年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 七选五 原文

In any language, some letters are used more than others.

2016年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 七选五 选项

Later that morning, Dario suggested that they write a letter to their neighbors and apologize for their playing.

2015年高考英语北京卷 完形填空 原文

Michael Horan wrote the letter mainly to show that some pedestrians are a threat to road safety.

2015年高考英语湖南卷 阅读理解 阅读A 题设

My interest was aroused only by the fact that the word "poems" appeared in big, hot pink letters.

2016年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读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年高考英语天津卷 阅读表达 原文

Over the years, the game had been produced using letters in different sizes and game boards in different colors.

2015年高考英语广东卷 阅读理解 阅读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年高考英语福建卷 完形填空 原文

Tanis wrote this letter in order to show how grateful she was to the center.

2016年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读A 题设

The girl's parents got rashid's phone number from a letter in his papers.

2014年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读A 题设

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年高考英语天津卷 阅读表达 原文

The three letters present viewpoints on real source of road danger.

2015年高考英语湖南卷 阅读理解 阅读A 题设

The underlined word "they" in the third letter refers to cyclists.

2015年高考英语湖南卷 阅读理解 阅读A 题设

You can hide a message by having the first letters of each word spell it out.

2016年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 七选五 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年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 七选五 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年考研阅读原文

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年考研阅读原文

The popularity of these novels consolidated Dichens’ as a nationally and internationally celebrated man of letters.

出自-2017年考研阅读原文

Also missing is any discussion of eliminating Saturday letter delivery.

出自-2018年考研阅读原文

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年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

英英释义

Noun
  • 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

Verb
  • 1. win an athletic letter

  • 2. set down or print with letters

  • 3. mark letters on or mark with letters

同义词辨析

alphabet, letter, character, script

这些名词均有"字母"之意。

  • alphabet:指整个字母系统或一种语言的字母表,不表单个字母。
  • letter:指单个的字母。
  • character:通常指汉语的方块字,也指字符。
  • script:指书写或印刷的字母。

letter, note, correspondence, message

这些名词均有"信"之意。

  • letter: 最普通用词,泛指一切形式的书信,尤指邮寄的信。
  • note: 指内容直截了当的短信或便条,正式或非正式均可。
  • correspondence: 集合名词,指全部来往信件。
  • message: 指书信、口信、电报等。