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essay

/noun es-ey for 1, 2; es-ey, e-sey for 3-5; verb e-sey/US // noun ˈɛs eɪ for 1, 2; ˈɛs eɪ, ɛˈseɪ for 3-5; verb ɛˈseɪ //

作文,论文,作家

Related Words

dissertation论文,学位论文,毕业论文treatise论著,专著,论述,论文manuscript手稿,稿件,稿子,稿费study研究,研究报告,学习,研究报告书paper纸,纸张,纸质,纸业thesis论文,毕业论文,论述,论题article文章,条,条款,条例piece一块,一片,一件,块discussion讨论,探讨,研讨,商讨explication阐释,解释,阐述,解释说明theme主题,专题,题目,课题exposition论述,论述题,论证会,论述书disquisition审讯,审问,语录,判决书tract大道,大片土地,大道上的人,大片的composition构成,组成,成分,成份exertion用力,用功,用力情况,用力程度shot镜头,摄,炮击,镜头下的toil劳累,劳作,劳动,劳苦undertaking承诺,事业,承诺书,承担effort努力,努力工作,努力奋斗,努力的方向

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a short literary composition on a particular theme or subject, usually in prose and generally analytic, speculative, or interpretative.
    • : anything resembling such a composition: a picture essay.
    • : an effort to perform or accomplish something; attempt.
    • : Philately. a design for a proposed stamp differing in any way from the design of the stamp as issued.
    • : Obsolete. a tentative effort; trial; assay.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to try; attempt.
    • : to put to the test; make trial of.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounwritten discourse
Forms: essayed, essays
Synonyms
article文章,条,条款,条例discussion讨论,探讨,研讨,商讨dissertation论文,学位论文,毕业论文manuscript手稿,稿件,稿子,稿费paper纸,纸张,纸质,纸业piece一块,一片,一件,块study研究,研究报告,学习,研究报告书thesis论文,毕业论文,论述,论题treatise论著,专著,论述,论文composition构成,组成,成分,成份disquisition审讯,审问,语录,判决书explication阐释,解释,阐述,解释说明exposition论述,论述题,论证会,论述书theme主题,专题,题目,课题tract大道,大片土地,大道上的人,大片的
nountry, attempt
Forms: essayed, essays
Synonyms
aim宗旨,瞄准,宗旨是,旨bid竞标,竞价,竞拍,申办effort努力,努力工作,努力奋斗,努力的方向endeavor努力,尽力而为,尽力,奋进exertion用力,用功,用力情况,用力程度experiment实验,试验,实验中,实验性hassle烦人,烦扰,纠缠不清,纠结labor劳动,工,工作,劳工shot镜头,摄,炮击,镜头下的striving争取,奋斗,奋斗的,努力struggle奋斗,挣扎,斗争,奋斗目标test测试,试验,检验,实验toil劳累,劳作,劳动,劳苦travail工作,劳动,工作机会,劳动强度trial审判,试验,审理,审判工作tryout试镜,试行,试炼,试探undertaking承诺,事业,承诺书,承担venture创业,冒险,风险,风险投资whack捶打,猛击,抨击,捶击work工作,工,作业,劳动dry run干运行,干跑,干式运行,干运行时one's allone's level besttry on试试,试行,试试吧,尝试一下
verbtry, attempt
Forms: essayed, essays
Synonyms
aim宗旨,瞄准,宗旨是,旨assay化验,化验结果,化验员,化验单endeavor努力,尽力而为,尽力,奋进labor劳动,工,工作,劳工offer提供,提议,优惠,提价seek寻求,寻找,求,征求strive争取,努力,力争,努力奋斗struggle奋斗,挣扎,斗争,奋斗目标test测试,试验,检验,实验toil劳累,劳作,劳动,劳苦travail工作,劳动,工作机会,劳动强度undertake承担,从事,开展,承诺venture创业,冒险,风险,风险投资work工作,工,作业,劳动have a crack有裂缝,裂缝,裂纹have a go试一试,来一发,试一试吧,来吧have a shot来吧,有机会have at it来吧,随意,随手拈来,随手make a run at跑到,奔向,奔赴,追赶put to the test考验,受到考验,受考验,接受考验take a stab at试探一下,试探,插手,试探性地take a whack at猛烈抨击,打击,抽打,抽查take on承担,对付,担当,承担起try out试行,试试,尝试,试用

Examples

  • GPT-3 also raises concerns about the future of essay writing in the education system.

  • As several of my colleagues commented, the result is good enough that it could pass for an essay written by a first-year undergraduate, and even get a pretty decent grade.

  • This little essay helps focus on self-knowledge in what you’re best at, and how you should prioritize your time.

  • As Steven Feldstein argues in the opening essay, technonationalism plays a part in the strengthening of other autocracies too.

  • He’s written a collection of essays on civil engineering life titled Bridginess, and to this day he and Lauren go on “bridge dates,” where they enjoy a meal and admire the view of a nearby span.

  • I think a certain kind of compelling essay has a piece of that.

  • The current attack on the Jews,” he wrote in a 1937 essay, “targets not just this people of 15 million but mankind as such.

  • The impulse to interpret seems to me what makes personal essay writing compelling.

  • To be honest, I think a lot of good essay writing comes out of that.

  • Someone recently sent me an old Joan Didion essay on self-respect that appeared in Vogue.

  • There is more of the uplifted forefinger and the reiterated point than I should have allowed myself in an essay.

  • Consequently he was able to turn in a clear essay upon the subject, which, upon examination, the king found to be free from error.

  • It is no part of the present essay to attempt to detail the particulars of a code of social legislation.

  • But angels and ministers of grace defend us from ministers of religion who essay art criticism!

  • It is fit that the imagination, which is free to go through all things, should essay such excursions.

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