单词 | rough draft |
释义 | rough draftn. A first, preliminary, or original draft (of a document, story, etc.). Also in figurative context. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > written text > [noun] > preliminary or rough copy draught1528 rough draft1576 foul papers1601 rough copy1638 essay1656 concept1658 draft1769 upset1841 1576 H. Gilbert Disc. Discov. New Passage Cataia sig. ¶¶¶¶.i And [I] haue herewithall sent you, for your better vnderstandinge, a rough draught, of a vniuersall Map in the end of the boke. 1653 W. Harvey Anat. Exercitations lvi. 329 At this time also the adumbration, or rough draft of the rest of the Body seems to succeed. a1699 W. Temple Ess. Pop. Discontents in Wks. (1720) I. 263 I shall..trace upon this Paper the rough Draught of some such Notions as I have had long and often in my Head. 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 272. ⁋1 The rough Draught of the Marriage Settlement. 1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar xiii. 173 His Agrarian law, the rough draft of which had been already discussed. 1921 T. S. Eliot Let. 4 Nov. (1988) I. 484 I have done a rough draft of part of part III, but do not know whether it will do. 2006 Wall St. Jrnl. 17 Apr. (Central ed.) a16/2 It is likely that these..critics are trying to write their own first, rough draft of historic blame shifting. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1576 |
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