单词 | essay |
释义 | es·say I. 1. a. archaic b. obsolete c. 2. a. < 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. < 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. 1. a. < 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 < the fledgling bird made a small essay at flying > b. < 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 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. < 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. < 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. < make an essay of the various methods of removing paint > 4. a. obsolete b. |
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