n.
书信
It enclosed a short, formal missive to Madame de Mauves, but the epistle itself was copious and confidential
那里面有一封致德莫福夫人的简短的正式书信,但信本身却很有内容,全是体己话。
That luminous epistle finishes me with the religious element among my constituents.
这封聪明的书信把我选民当中的宗教界人士对我的好感完全断送了。
-扩展释义
n.
1. (《圣经·新约》中的)使徒书,2. 书信;正式信函
n.
[C]1. 书信(尤指写得严肃且带有教训意味的信函),2. (大写)(《圣经·新约》中的)使徒书
词组
noun
1.A book of the New Testament in the form of a letter from an Apostle.
‘St Paul’s _Epistle_ to the Romans’
‘St. Paul begins his _epistles_ with a prayer of gratitude and ends with prayer.’
2.A letter.
‘activists firing off angry _epistles_ ’
‘The opinions expressed in these evocative _epistles_ were remarkably forthright and revealing.’
3.A poem or other literary work in the form of a letter or series of letters.
‘In the letter that directly precedes the _epistle_ containing his translation, Petrarch presents a series of arguments contradicting Boccaccio’s request that he take literary retirement on account of his old age.’
‘And while we have become accustomed to the epistolary poem as a quasi-public mode in the seventeenth century, many of Fane’s _epistles_ are no more than personal notes.’
4.An extract from an Epistle (or another New Testament book not a Gospel) that is read in a church service.
‘The Rev Nancy Gillespie read the first Lesson, and the _Epistle_ was read by The Rev J.W. McKegney, Rector of St Mark’s Armagh.’
‘It was widely used at Mass and had the Latin text on one side of the page and the English translation on the other, with _epistles_ and gospel readings also in English.’
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