英语词汇“essay”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	essay
释义	es·say I. \(ˈ)e\|sā, ə̇ˈsā\ transitive verb (-ed/-ing/-s) Etymology: Middle French essaier, assaier, from Old French, from essai, assai (n.) 1. a. archaic : to put to a test : try out b. obsolete : to find out by making a test c. : assay II 4a 2. a. : to attempt or endeavor especially by tentative methods or by appraising, probing, or seeking expedients — used with the infinitive < Dick, being carefully installed in the saddle, essayed to descend — Arnold Bennett > < the heavy butler essayed to speak, but the tremendous blow and the baronet's gesture choked him — George Meredith > b. : to make an effort to do, accomplish, perform, deal with, or venture upon (something difficult or presenting obstacles) < stayed there all day and in the evening again essayed escape — F.Tennyson Jesse > < the medieval men who essayed the paths of natural science — H.O.Taylor > < the ballerina essayed a dramatic role on televison — Current Biography > < the second part essays to give in sixty-four pages an account of our modern knowledge of the universe — Times Literary Supplement > Synonyms: see try II. \in sense 2 ˈeˌsā sometimes -_sā or -_sē or -_si in other senses (ˈ)e\|sā or ə̇ˈsā\ noun (-s) Etymology: Middle French essai, assai, from Old French, from Late Latin exagium act of weighing, weight, balance, from Latin ex- + -agium, from agere to do, drive; influenced by Latin exigere to weigh, test, drive out — more at agent, exact (adjective) 1. a. : an effort made to do or perform : attempt, endeavor < make an essay to assist a friend > < making an essay to be gallant, “Present company excepted”, he said with a smile and a little bow — Aldous Huxley > < nowhere in the book do we find any systematic essay to characterize this creative partnership — Lee Strasberg > < politics in England is one long essay in the gentle art of compromise — W.A.Robson > especially : an initial and tentative effort < the fledgling bird made a small essay at flying > b. : the result or product of the effort to do or perform something (as something difficult or presenting unusual obstacles) < Haydn's final essay in the symphonic form — Sydney (Australia) Bulletin > < his first essays in the skyscraper and the industrial building, which paved the way for the successful buildings of the middle nineteen-thirties — Lewis Mumford > < turn … the monstrously dull Brahms sonata into the heroic essay it was undoubtedly meant to be — New York Herald Tribune > especially : a usually tentative and short intellectual or artistic excursion (as into a new field of endeavor) < a schizoid novel … an admirable essay into the picaresque — New Yorker > < concertino for pianoforte and orchestra, a charming essay in the modernized classical vein — Walter Legge > < Brook's first essay into politics was in the 1932 state elections campaign — Current Biography > 2. a. : an analytic, interpretative, or critical literary composition usually much shorter and less systematic and formal than a dissertation or thesis and usually dealing with its subject from a limited often personal point of view < the thesis must not be a mere essay; it must present evidence of a thorough acquaintance with some limited special field, obtained by recourse to original sources — Bulletin of New York University > < persuasion is more starkly and simply the purpose of the essay than of fiction or poetry, since the essay deals always with an idea — Katharine F. Gerould > < in style and structure the three volumes … completed are a thousand-page essay rather than a systematic treatise — Geoffrey Bruun > b. : something resembling or suggesting such a composition especially in its presentation of an extended analytic, interpretative, or critical view of something (as by a series of photographs or a documentary film) < a book he did on Europe's postwar children remains one of the most arresting essays of modern photography — Newsweek > < the Shelter drawings made during the war are frankly graphic essays done with no thought of sculpture — R.J.Goldwater > < two young dancers whose evident physical talents have not yet received the polish that this essay in elegant athletics requires — Winthrop Sargeant > 3. : trial, test < make an essay of the various methods of removing paint > 4. a. obsolete : a trial specimen : sample, example b. : a proof of an unaccepted design for a stamp or piece of paper money
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