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letter

英 ['letə] 美['lɛtɚ]

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近义词note dispatch message

n. 信；字母，文字；证书；文学，学问；字面意义
vt. 写字母于
vi. 写印刷体字母
n. (Letter)人名；(英)莱特

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词态变化

复数: letters;第三人称单数: letters;过去式: lettered;过去分词: lettered;现在分词: lettering;

中文词源

letter 信，字母

来自拉丁语litera,字母，文字，词源同literal.引申词义信件。

英英释意

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

英文词源

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 ‘alphabetic 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 bocstæf, 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 litteræ "a letter, epistle," a sense first attested in English early 13c., replacing Old English ærendgewrit, 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。

考试真题

The tests are designed to detect subtle ( ' , 细微的) changes in mental function, and involve solving puzzles, recalling words and details from stories, and identifying patterns in collections of letters and symbols.

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.

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

Send in an application letter.

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

Complaining in person or by letter is generally more effective.

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

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

What should you do if you make a complaint by letter

"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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Only apply for positions you're qualified for, and make each application count, personalizing each cover letter and updating and editing your resume.

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.

The FBI worked closely with the Archives to determine that the letter was both authentic and definitely Smithsonian's property.

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.

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.

Their art crime team recovered the letter but were unable to press charges because the time of limitations had ended.

That letter, which includes several concerns Morgan has with the plan, was originally obtained by The Commercial Appeal in Memphis.

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

In his resignation letter, Morgan called the reorganization unworkable.

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

Present a new letter of reference.

Send Professor Smith a letter

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

Submit no more than three letters

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

I got two letters this morning with job offers, one from the Polytechnic, and the other from the Language School in Pistoia, Italy.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Here are some letters from our readers.

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

If we substitute a number for each letter, the message "meet me" would read 13 5 5 20 13 5.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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."

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

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

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

You might represent each letter with a number, for example, let's number the letters of the alphabet, in order, from 1 to 26.

The White House argued that Arizona's laws conflicted with its enforcement priorities, even if state laws complied with federal statutes to the letter.

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”.

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

Also missing is any discussion of eliminating Saturday letter delivery.

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

词组搭配

to the letter

To the last detail; exactly

严格按照文字；精确地

followed instructions to the letter.
不折不扣地遵照指示

实用场景例句

a business/thank-you, etc. letter: 商业信函、感谢信等

a letter of complaint: 投诉书

(British English)to post a letter: 寄信

(North Amercian English)to mail a letter: 寄信

There's a letter for you from your mother.: 有你母亲的一封来信。

You will be notified by letter .: 将用信函通知你。

‘B ’ is the second letter of the alphabet.: b是字母表的第二个字母。

Write your name in capital/block letters .: 用大写字母书写姓名。

They insist on sticking to the letter of the law.: 他们坚持严守法律的字面意义。

I followed your instructions to the letter.: 我是严格遵照你的指示办的。

the stars lettered Alpha and Beta: 以α和β命名的星

a black banner lettered in white: 印有白色字母的黑色横幅

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.

Take the letter to him [ her ; them ].: 把信给人家送去.

The letter ended on a cheerful note.: 这封信以乐观的口气收尾.

She guessed that the letter had something to do with her husband.: 她猜想这封信与她丈夫有关.

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