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letters

US // (ˈlɛtəz) //

函件,信件,信函,信信

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    • : literary knowledge, ability, or learninga man of letters
    • : literary culture in general
    • : an official title, degree, etc, indicated by an abbreviationletters after one's name

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Examples

  • He established letters pages to communicate with readers, his side of the discussion bopping with hepcat lingo.

  • Gang tattoos are still inked onto his face, like scarlet letters.

  • But then, I would look at the letters that people have sent.

  • If the embargo were effective, the Castro brothers would have been doing Love Letters with the Duvaliers years ago.

  • Red letters scrawled underneath seem to be Ramone thinking aloud: “I wonder but I think so.”

  • The remark comes to mind while reading The Selected Letters of Norman Mailer.

  • As small letters weary the eye most, so also the smallest affairs disturb us most.

  • Letters coming from him from time to time prove that he was alive and well at least until three months ago.

  • The book contains many words in which some though not all of the letters are in italics, for example Swordsman.

  • No law of that country must exceed in words the number of letters in their alphabet, which consists only in two-and-twenty.

  • At that time, the postage on letters from that region was very high, sometimes as much as fifty or sixty cents, or even a dollar.