letters
n. <正>文学(作品); 信( letter的名词复数 ); 函件; 字母; (缝制在运动服上的)校运动队字母标志(美式英语)
If you write a letter to someone, you write a message on paper and send it to them, usually by post.
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
Letters are written symbols which represent one of the sounds in a language.
...the letters of the alphabet.
字母表中的字母
...the letter E.
字母E
If a student earns a letter in sports or athletics by being part of the university or college team, they are entitled to wear on their jacket the initial letter of the name of their university or college.
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。
If a student letters in sports or athletics by being part of the university or college team, they are entitled to wear on their jacket the initial letter of the name of their university or college.
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。
If you say that someone keeps to the letter of the law, you mean that they act according to what is actually written in the law, rather than according to the general principles of it, especially when you disapprove of this.
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。
If you say that someone carries out instructions to the letter, you mean that they do exactly what they are told to do, paying great attention to every detail.
She obeyed his instructions to the letter.
她分毫不差地遵照他的吩咐去做。
1. the literary culture;
2. scholarly attainment;
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。