essays是什么意思？

essays

• n. 散文( essay的名词复数 )，（作为课程作业，学生写的）文章，企图，（用来刊登的）论说文；

例句

• I like essays with an acrid flavour. 我喜欢风格泼辣的文章。
• Now we wait for them to turn in their essays... 现在我们等着他们交上作文。
• Now we wait for them to turn in their essays. 现在我们等着他们交上作文。
• Poems and essays alike abound in neat turns of phrase, and epigrams that are immediately pleasing. 诗文中充满了简洁的短语和读来清晰可喜的短句.
• These essays are interlarded with quotations from the poets. 这些文章混有诗人的文句.
• These cavils aside, most of the essays are very good indeed. 这些吹毛求疵的批评暂且不论，多数论文的确是很不错的。
• Time has winnowed out certain of the essays as superior. 历经岁月淘洗，某些文章终成经典。
• We xeroxed thirty sample essays to be graded by all the teachers. 我们复印了30份样本短文供所有教师评阅.
• The students have submitted their essays to their tutors. 学生把论文递交给导师.
• Holmes used an informal, chatty tone in his essays. 霍姆斯在文章中语气轻松随便.

英语四级真题

In one 1990s experiment, a team including psychologist Joel Cooper of Princeton asked participants to write essays opposing funding for the disabled.
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英语六级真题

Smith's essays raise as many questions as they answer.
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G) Those schools usually require essays of their own, but the longest essay, 500 words maximum, is generally attached to the Common Application.
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柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-COUNT
  （学生就某门课程所写的）论说文，短文
  An essay is a short piece of writing on one particular subject written by a student.
  例句
  We asked Jason to write an essay about his hometown and about his place in it. 我们让贾森写一篇有关他的家乡和他自己的家的短文。
• N-COUNT
  （关于某一方面的）论文，杂文，散文
  An essay is a short piece of writing on one particular subject that is written by a writer for publication.
  例句
  ...Thomas Malthus's essay on population. 托马斯·马尔萨斯有关人口的论文
• VERB
  企图;尝试
  If you essay something, you try to do it.
  例句
  Sinclair essayed a smile but it could hardly have been rated as a success. 辛克莱想试着微笑一下，但根本没有笑出来。