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letters

英美['lɛtɚ]

英英释义考试真题实用场景例句

n. [语] 字母；书信；读者投书栏（letter的复数）
v. 用字母标明；用印刷体写（letter的第三人称单数）

高频词

英英释意

1. the literary culture;: "this book shows American letters at its best"

2. scholarly attainment;: "he is a man of letters"

英文词源

letters (n.): "the profession of authorship or literature," mid-13c., from plural of letter (n.).

考试真题

"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

And new research reveals that men are more likely to receive excellent letters of recommendation, too.

Building a neon sign is an art practiced by professionals trained on the job to mold glass tubes into decorative shapes and letters.

But she says the results still suggest women in geoscience are at a potential disadvantage from the very beginning of their careers starting with those less than outstanding letters of recommendation.

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.

Dutt and her colleagues studied more than 1,200 letters of recommendation for postdoctoral positions in geoscience.

Female applicants to postdoctoral positions in geosciences were nearly half as likely to receive excellent letters of recommendation, compared with their male counterparts.

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.

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 symbol.

They found that female applicants were only half as likely to get outstanding letters, compared with their male counterparts.

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

Submit no more than three letters

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

If they wanted to spell something, they used code words for letters of the Alphabet.

In 1863, after 17 years of advocacy including letters to five presidents, Hale got it.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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 popularity of these novels consolidated Dickens as a nationally and internationally celebrated man of letters.

When younger kids learn computer science, they learn that it's not just a confusing, endless string of letters and numbers -- but a tool to build apps, or create artwork, or test hypotheses.

实用场景例句

He passed the letters to the Department of Trade and Industry.: 他把信交给了贸工部。

I am expecting several important letters but nothing has arrived.: 我正在等几封重要的信件，可是一封都没到。

We delved through a sackful of letters to draw the winning name.: 我们把手探进一袋信件中抽取获奖者。

She's got too much dignity to descend to writing anonymous letters.: 她是个自尊心很强的人，绝不会自贬身份去写匿名信。

They advocated a scattergun approach of posting dozens of letters.: 他们主张采取向四处随意邮寄大量信件的方式。

Here's another selection of recent letters from our postbag.: 这是我们从近期公众来信里挑选出的又一批信件。

All her letters were carefully filed away in folders.: 她所有的信件都整齐地放在文件夹中。

He received a flood of letters from irate constituents.: 他收到愤怒的选区居民洪水般涌来的信件。

Unmanned post offices meant millions of letters went unsorted.: 邮局无人工作意味着许多信件无人分拣。

His letters, like his poetry, are life-enhancing and a delight.: 他的信跟他的诗一样，读来令生活更添滋味，可谓一大乐事。

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。

I wrote hundreds of begging letters to charities and businesses.: 我给慈善团体和商业机构写了几百封求助信。

The letters might not have been meant for me at all.: 这些信件可能原本就不是写给我的。

We did the logo in lower-case letters instead of capitals.: 我们的徽标用了小写字母，没用大写。

This collection of letters is affectionate, candid and wickedly funny.: 这本书信集感情真挚，语言坦率，还透着一种顽皮的滑稽。