| 单词 | essay |
| 释义 | essay (once / 205 pages) 1n 2vn 3v A composition that is usually short and has a literary theme is called an essay. You should probably start writing your essay on "To Kill a Mockingbird" sometime before the bus ride to school the day it is due. As a noun, an essay is also an attempt, especially a tentative initial one. Your essay to make friends at your new school would probably work better if you actually spoke to other students. As a verb, to essay is to make an attempt. If you essay to run for student council, you might lose to the girl who promises more recess, longer lunches, and less homework. WORD FAMILYessay: essayed, essayer, essaying, essayist, essays+/essayer: essayers/essayist: essayists USAGE EXAMPLESRunning year-round in four-week sessions, the program consists of 12 levels of language attainment, with components including grammar and vocabulary, essay writing, and conversational English. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) Do you think the essay collection will change the way you approach your fiction in the future? The New Yorker(Jan 02, 2017) The essay was meant to provoke conservatives, and it succeeded. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) 1 n an analytic or interpretive literary composition 2Hypo|Hyper composition, paper, report, theme an essay (especially one written as an assignment) disquisitionan elaborate analytical or explanatory essay or discussion memoiran essay on a scientific or scholarly topic thanatopsisan essay expressing a view on the subject of death term papera composition intended to indicate a student's progress during a school term piece of writing, writing, written material the work of a writer; anything expressed in letters of the alphabet (especially when considered from the point of view of style and effect) 1v make an effort or attempt The infant had essayed a few wobbly steps Syn|Hypo|Hyper assay, attempt, seek, try pick up the gauntlet, take a dare be dared to do something and attempt it fight, strugglemake a strenuous or labored effort give it a try, have a gomake an attempt at something gropesearch blindly or uncertainly endeavor, endeavour, striveattempt by employing effort give it a try, give it a whirltry adventure, chance, gamble, hazard, risk, run a risk, take a chance, take chancestake a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome lay on the line, put on the line, riskexpose to a chance of loss or damage struggleto exert strenuous effort against opposition drive, labor, labour, push, tugstrive and make an effort to reach a goal flounderbehave awkwardly; have difficulties be at pains, take painstry very hard to do something buckto strive with determination go for brokerisk everything in one big effort luck it, luck throughact by relying on one's luck adventure, hazard, jeopardize, stake, ventureput at risk bell the cattake a risk; perform a daring act act, move perform an action, or work out or perform (an action) 2n a tentative attempt 3Hyper attempt, effort, endeavor, endeavour, try earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something v put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to Syn|Hypo|Hyper examine, prove, test, try, try out control, verify check or regulate (a scientific experiment) by conducting a parallel experiment or comparing with another standard floatcirculate or discuss tentatively; test the waters with field-testtest something under the conditions under which it will actually be used evaluate, judge, pass judgment form a critical opinion of |
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