prose，essay，sketch ；

[例句] 他的散文文笔有力、内容庞杂，有时几近晦涩。 His prose is vigorous and dense, occasionally to the point of obscurity.

[例句] 他花了几个小时讲述法国和英国的散文。 He discoursed for several hours on French and English prose.

prayer ；

[例句] 理查德叔叔吟诵了《圣经》中的一章，又即兴作了一段祈祷文。 Uncle Richard intoned a chapter from the Bible and improvised a prayer.

[例句] 一名牧师照着祈祷书念祷文。 A clergyman read the liturgy from the prayer-book.

short essay，essay，tractate ；

[例句] 她1930年写了篇女性主义的短文《论节育》。 She produced a feminist tract, "Comments on Birth-Control", in 1930.

[例句] 阅读这篇短文很有启发。 Reading this essay was an elevating experience.

literary composition in rhyme，verse，poesy ；

[例句] 这些剧本以韵文写成。 The plays are in rhyme.

[例句] 这剧本大部分是用韵文写的，不过有一些是用散文。 Most of the play is written in verse, but some of it is in prose.

Sanskrit ；

[例句] 夏尔马先生点上香，念起梵文咒语。 Mr Sharma lit incense and chanted Sanskrit mantras.

[例句] 这些大乘佛教的文献都是用梵文与混合梵文写程. Mahayana literature was written mostly in Sanskrit and mixed Sanskrit.

ciphertext，cryptograph ；

[例句] 该程序将然后计算并显示密文. The program will then calculate and display the ciphertext.

[例句] 这样将明文变成形式为一串数字密文. This will clear the form of a string of figures ciphertext.

literary giant，great writer，eminent writer ；

[例句] 莎士比亚是个文豪. Shakespeare is a classic.

[例句] 在英国文学的全盛时期里有德莱顿 、 斯威夫特和蒲柏等文豪. The Augustan age of English literature includes the writers Dryden, Swift and Pope.

civilization，culture，civilized，[电影]Civilization；

characters cut in intaglio ；

[例句] 相纸阴图: 不在菲林物料而在相纸上造成的阴文图像. Paper negatives: Negatives produced on paper instead of on film.

[例句] 尽可能地避免使用过细过小的阴文和阳文字体. Whenever possible, avoid using small small of printed and embossed font.

essay ；

[例句] 最近华格纳对这问题发表了一篇有趣的小品文. Wagner has lately published an interesting essay on this subject.

[例句] 华盛顿·欧文发表了不少优美的小品文和短篇小说. Washington Irving published graceful sketches and stories.

（写文章） write a composition，（文章） composition ；

[例句] 现在我们等着他们交上作文。 Now we wait for them to turn in their essays.

[例句] 你已经写完作文了 吧 ?你动作真快. Have you finished your composition already? You are very speedy.

collected works，corpus ；

[例句] 这本文集是为配合在科隆举办的一场展览而出的。 This volume of essays was designed to accompany an exhibition in Cologne.

[例句] 这本文集是由埃伦·奈特编选的。 This collection of essays is edited by Ellen Knight.

text ；

[例句] 这篇课文把相当复杂的主题讲述得深入浅出、通俗易懂。 The text is approachable, coping well with quite complicated subjects.

[例句] 课文索然无味。 The text is banal.

cultured，polite，elegant，gentle，couth ；

[例句] 他的母亲是一位端庄文雅的女性。 His mother was an elegant, cultivated woman.

[例句] 你是够文雅的, 看上去象个大家闺秀. You are genteel enough, you look like a lady.

Irving ；

[例句] 欧文因费用问题对此表示反对。 Owen was against it, on the grounds of expense.

[例句] 什罗普郡的风景也对欧文产生了影响。 The Shropshire landscape was an influence on Owen too.

foregoing paragraphs or chapters，preceding part of the text ；

[例句] 从上文描述的结果中可以得出几个结论。 Several conclusions could be drawn from the results described above.

[例句] 他在左小腿上文了“安吉爱伊恩”几个字。 He had the words "Angie loves Ian" tattooed on his left shin.

Trecentist，litterateur，man of letters ；

[例句] 内战也重新激起要求本土文学家的呼吁. The war also brought a new clamour for native writers.

[例句] 这里名人辈出,光文学家就不知凡几. There are numerous men of letters who were born here.

[律] main body of a court verdict，leading paragraph of judge's review，summing up the juristic position of case ；

[例句] 毫无疑问,法院将继续依靠宪法的主文. No doubt the courts will continue to rely heavily on the constitutional text.

[例句] 警告: 您指定的主文件夹已经存在. Warning: The dir you specified already exists.

narration，narrative ；

[例句] 传记是一种记叙文. A biography is a form of narration.

[例句] 只是把细节拼凑起来并不能写出一篇好的记叙文. One cannot write a good narrative simply by piecing together the details.

manuscript，draft ；

[例句] 他去世时留下大量尚未整理的文稿. At his death he left a great mass of undigested manuscripts.

[例句] 他的书桌上乱七八糟地堆满了文稿. Papers littered his desk.