writing

英 ['raɪtɪŋ] 美['raɪtɪŋ]
  • n. 书写;作品;著作;[法] 笔迹
  • v. 书写(write的ing形式)

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词态变化


复数: writings;

英英释意


1. the act of creating written works;
"writing was a form of therapy for him"
"it was a matter of disputed authorship"
2. the work of a writer; anything expressed in letters of the alphabet (especially when considered from the point of view of style and effect);
"the writing in her novels is excellent"
"that editorial was a fine piece of writing"
3. (usually plural) the collected work of an author;
"the idea occurs with increasing frequency in Hemingway's writings"
4. letters or symbols written or imprinted on a surface to represent the sounds or words of a language;
"he turned the paper over so the writing wouldn't show"
"the doctor's writing was illegible"
5. the activity of putting something in written form;
"she did the thinking while he did the writing"

英文词源


writing (n.)
Old English writing "action of forming letters and characters," verbal noun from write (v.). From c. 1200 as "text; body of poetry, narrative, etc. in written form; written material." From c. 1300 as "a particular text;" mid-14c. as "act of composing a written text." From late 14c. as "craft of writing;" also "one's own handwriting or penmanship." Also late 14c. as "act of sending a letter; a letter, message." Writing-desk is from 1610s.

考试真题


What is the author's purpose in writing the passage?

出自-2014年6月阅读原文

Learning to express ideas well in both writing and speech, knowing how to find information, and knowing how to do research are all solid background skills for a wide variety of roles, and such training is more important than any particular major in a liberal arts college.

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

More than half of their time is spent directing traffic and writing parking tickets.

出自-2012年6月阅读原文

On the other hand,there have been hundreds of thefts and cases of deliberate damaging of public property, which usually involves breaking windows or lights or writing on walls

出自-2012年6月阅读原文

Teachers could encourage boys to enjoy reading and writing with "boy-focused" approaches such as themes and characters that appeal to them.

出自-2011年12月阅读原文

However, Soren Andreasen, a social scientist at Dalberg Global Development Partners who supervised the writing of the report, defended it, saying that it was clear that the numbers were rough estimates.

出自-2011年6月阅读原文

They're online in chat rooms, checking e-mail, or writing blogs.

出自-2010年6月阅读原文

She was in the middle of writing an essay.

出自-2014年6月听力原文

By writing stories for American newspapers.

出自-2013年12月听力原文

Pamela is not good at writing research papers.

出自-2013年6月听力原文

Well, the problem is that this writing assignment isn't coming out right.

出自-2011年6月听力原文

What I thought I was writing on was to talk about what particular sport means to me when I participate in, W: What sport did you choose

出自-2011年6月听力原文

: What is the topic of the man's writing assignment?

出自-2011年6月听力原文

: What does the woman say is common in writing papers

出自-2011年6月听力原文

Well, I think the best thing for you to do is do reply a writing to the advertisement.

出自-2010年12月听力原文

I look forward to receiving your application in writing in a day or two

出自-2010年12月听力原文

Writing keeps us in touch with other people.

出自-2010年12月听力原文

With computers and Internet connections in so many households, colleges, business, people e-mailing friends and relatives all the time—or talking to them in writing in online chat rooms

出自-2010年12月听力原文

This writing practice brings rewards that can't be seen in bank accounts, but only in the success of human relationships.

出自-2010年12月听力原文

"I prefer take home essays because it is then really about the writing, so you have time to edit and do more research," says Elizabeth Dresser, a junior at Barnard.

2017年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

But what I learned, and what stuck with me through my time teaching writing at Harvard, was a deeper lesson about the nature of creative criticism .

2015年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

Franz Kafka once said: "Writing is utter solitude , the descent into the cold abyss of oneself."

2015年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

I was lucky enough to find a critic and teacher who was willing to make the journey of writing with me.

2015年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

It has a similar effect to writing by hand.

2018年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section B

My mother said she would help me with my writing, but first I had to help myself.

2015年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

My mother's criticism had shown me that Kafka is right about the cold abyss, and when you make the introspective descent that writing requires you are not always pleased by what you find.

2015年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

My notes may or may not be useful, but the point is that by writing down what Mr.Brown says, I can follow his line of thinking more easily.

2018年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section B

Perhaps the point of writing the flawless essay was not to give up, but to never willingly finish.

2015年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

So are you fast at writing the messages with your thumb?

2016年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section B

So I stopped shouting and bluffing, and slowly my writing improved.

2015年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

Somewhere along the way I set aside my hopes of writing that flawless essay.

2015年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

The intimate nature of genuine criticism implies something about who is able to give it, namely, someone who knows you well enough to show you how your mental life is getting in the way of good writing.

2015年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

The project is called Writing On it All, and it's a participatory writing project and artistic experiment that has happened on Governor's Island every summer since 2013.

2019年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C

Though Chasin says the focus of the work is on the activity of writing, rather than the text that ends up getting written, some of the work that comes out of the sessions has stuck with her.

2019年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C

We do our absolute best with a piece of writing, and come as close as we can to the ideal.

2015年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

You see, writing by hand forces you to actually engage with what you're learning in a more physical way.

2018年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section B

Although going to college is supposed to be a full-time job, students spent, on average, only 12 to 14 hours a week studying and many were skating through their semesters without doing a significant amount of reading and writing.

2015年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C

Before writing Metamorphosis, Merian spent decades documenting European plants and insects that she published in a series of books.

2018年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

I've often stopped writing a book and left it for a few years.

2017年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section A

My day mainly incorporates responding to emails, writing and editing stories and coming up with new feature ideas.

2019年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section A

Otherwise, you'll be writing a book.

2018年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section A

This is still disputed, but it's clear that the woman reputed for writing it was one of America's most fascinating characters.

2018年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A

We spend our days looking at ideas from journalists, writing copy for the magazine and website and editing.

2019年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section A

Writing in the journal, the scientists describe how the storks from Germany were clearly affected by the presence of waste sites, with four out of six birds that survived for at least five months overwintering on rubbish dumps in northern Morocco, instead

2017年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C

And I always started the day's work with the difficult task of essay-writing.

2016年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

As one would expect, his writing is mostly clear and, to be fair, some chapters stand out above the rest.

2015年高考英语湖北卷 阅读理解 阅读E 原文

Brian is gifted in writing music; he is very likely to be a Beethoven.

2015年高考英语四川卷 单项填空 原文

For example, when I'm writing a textbook, it has become second nature to check a dozen definitions of a key term, which helps me dig into the core and understand its meaning.

2016年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 任务型阅读 原文

I once wrote a paper on the influence of fairy tales on Roald Dahl's writing and it gave me a new appreciation for his strange and delightful words.

2019年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

It had also given me a choice, either to leave that page blank or to keep writing the story with hope.

2018年高考英语江苏卷 完形填空 原文

It was Monday morning, and the writing class had just begin.

2018年高考英语全国卷3 语法填空 原文

It's partly that his writings rode a wave of social, political and scientific progress.

2018年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

It's partly true that Dickens' style of writing attracted audiences from all walks of life.

2018年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

Our standard course guarantees a significant increase in your confidence in a foreign language, with focused teaching in all 4 skill areas----speaking, listening, reading and writing.

2016年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

People had been writing novels for a century—most experts date the first novel to Robinson Crusoe in 1719—but nobody wanted to do it professionally.

2018年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

The challenge invites, even dares school students between the ages of 5 and 14 to create artwork or a piece of writing that shows their curiosity how it inspires them to explore their world.

2014年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

This function of the Internet is particularly striking when I'm writing; I'm no longer comfortable writing if I'm not connected to the Internet.

2016年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

To enter the challenge, all artwork or pieces of writing should be sent to the Cambridge Science Festival, mit museum, 265 Mass Avenue.

2014年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

When he was writing his novels, Charles Dickens would act out the parts of the characters, he'd make faces in the mirror, and change his voice for each character.

2017年高考英语浙江卷(11月) 阅读理解 七选五 原文

Yet only one of his books is now in print, and his vast body of writings on music is unknown save to specialists.

出自-2010年考研阅读原文

From the earliest days of the Renaissance, the writing of history meant recounting the exemplary lives of great men.

2012年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

In 1337, Petrarch began work on his rambling writing De viris Illustribus—On Famous Men, highlighting the virtus or virtue of classical heroes.

2012年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

None of this is about writing off the individual.

2019年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Pyle was famous for covering the human side of the war, writing about the dirt-snow-and-mud soldiers, not how many miles were gained or what towns were captured or liberated.

2012年考研真题(英语二)完形填空 Section Ⅰ

Writing in The New Republic, Alice Lee notes that increasing the number of opportunities for board membership without increasing the pool of qualified women to serve on such boards has led to a "golden skirt" phenomenon, where the same elite women scoop u

2020年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

词组搭配


in writing

in written form, especially as proof of an agreement or grievance

以书面形式(尤指作为同意或申诉证明)

he asked them to put their complaints in writing.

他要求他们以书面形式提出投诉。

the writing(或北美handwriting) is on the wall

there are clear signs that something unpleasant or unwelcome is going to happen

厄运将至

the writing was on the wall for the old system.

旧制度的厄运将至。

实用场景例句


Our son's having problems with his reading and writing (= at school) .
我们儿子在读写方面有困难。

牛津词典

a writing case (= containing paper, pens, etc.)
文具盒

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Only later did she discover a talent for writing.
她后来才发现自己的写作天分。

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He is leaving the band to concentrate on his writing.
他要离开乐队去专职写作。

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creative writing
文学创作

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feminist/travel, etc. writing
女权主义文章、游记等的写作

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The review is a brilliant piece of writing.
这篇评论很精彩。

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His experiences in India influenced his later writings.
他在印度的经历影响了他后来的著作。

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the writings of Hegel
黑格尔的著作

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There was writing all over the desk.
书桌上写满了字。

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Who's this from? I don't recognize the writing.
这是谁写来的?我辨认不出笔迹。

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All telephone reservations must be confirmed in writing.
所有的电话预订必须以书面形式确认。

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Could you put your complaint in writing ?
你能把投诉的内容写下来吗?

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You must get it in writing .
你必须用书面的形式。

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It is amazing that not one of them saw the writing on the wall.
令人吃惊的是他们就没有一个人看出大难临头的预兆。

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'It's from a notebook,' the sheriff said, 'And there's writing on it.'...
“这是在一个笔记本里找到的,”法官道,“上面还有文字。”

柯林斯高阶英语词典

If you have a complaint about your holiday, please inform us in writing.
如果您对您的假日有什么意见,请书面告知我们。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

The writing is brutally tough and savagely humorous...
该作品带有残酷的强悍和野性的幽默感。

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It was such a brilliant piece of writing.
这真是一篇才华横溢的文章。

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She had begun to be a little bored with novel writing.
她开始对写小说有些厌倦了。

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...activities to help prepare children for writing.
帮助孩子准备写作的活动

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It was a little difficult to read your writing...
你写的字有点不好认。

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I think it's due to being left handed that he's got terrible writing.
我想他的书写这么糟糕是因为他是左撇子。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Althusser's writings are focused mainly on France...
阿尔都塞的著作主要是论述法国的。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

The pieces he is reading are adapted from the writings of Michael Frayn.
他目前阅读的作品改编自迈克尔·弗雷恩的著作。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

The writing is clearly on the wall. If we do nothing about it, we shall only have ourselves to blame.
凶兆显而易见。如果我们对此毫无行动,就只能怨自己了。

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