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单词 essay
释义
essay
noun[C]
UK
uk
/ˈes.eɪ/us
/ˈes.eɪ/
(USpaper)
B1
ashortpieceof writing on aparticularsubject,especiallyone done bystudentsaspartof theworkfor acourse:
（尤指学生写的作为课程作业的）短文；论说文；小品文，散文
ForhomeworkIwantyou to write an essayonendangeredspecies.我想让你们写一篇关于濒危物种的文章作为作业。
Mr Jonesthoughtmyhistoryessay wasterrific.琼斯先生认为我的历史作业论文写得好极了。
More examples
  • Iwanttofinishoff this essay before I go tobed.
  • His essay wasfullofspellingerrors.
  • Have you given that essay inyet?
  • Have youhandedinyourhistoryessayyet?
  • I'd like todiscussthe firstpointinyouressay.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Papers and compositions
  • boilerplate
  • composition
  • dissertation
  • monograph
  • palimpsest
  • paper
  • peer review
  • review
  • thesis
  • tract
  • treatise
essay
verb[T]
old-fashioned
uk
/eˈseɪ/us
/eˈseɪ/
totryto do something:
企图；尝试
Theprocedurewas first essayed in 1923.1923年有人首次尝试这种做法。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Trying and making an effort
  • A game
  • all-out
  • assault
  • attempt
  • attempted
  • bid
  • commitment
  • crack
  • go for itidiom
  • go forsomeone
  • go out ofyourwayidiom
  • go the extra mileidiom
  • go to great lengthsidiom
  • nose
  • seek
  • square the circleidiom
  • step on the gasidiom
  • stick atsomething
  • stick tosomething
  • strain after/for effectidiom
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(Definition ofessayfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

essay| American Dictionary

essay
noun[C]
us
/ˈes·eɪ/
literature
ashortpieceof writing on aparticularsubject, oftenexpressingpersonalviews
In aschooltest, an essay is a writtenanswerthatincludesinformationanddiscussion, usually totesthow well thestudentunderstandsthesubject.
(Definition ofessayfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofessay

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The following chapters, though superficially presenting the appearance of disconnected essays, really possess a strong bond of continuity.
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Interestingly, three rather distinct responses are exhibited in the essays.
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In part, this seems due to the editors' insistence on short essays.
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The volume is divided into two parts, each with six essays.
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In the mid 1920s he also started to publish theoretical essays outlining what he thought was happening in architecture, and where it should go.
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In some cases the essays are too short for the proper development of the argument.
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Taken as a group, these essays are based in deep research.
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None the less, the essays here are of a consistently high standard, and all have interesting and important things to say.
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The second large section of the volume consists of five longer essays organized into three 'working groups'.
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The individual essays succeed in opening up new lines of inquiry and adding to knowledge, but the collection as a whole lacks coherence.
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The essays vary greatly in length and character.
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The essays are organised into four thematic sections, and the overall sense is of a cohesive and well-integrated volume.
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The remainder of the essays are more miscellaneous.
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Ending on a rhetorical and substantive diminuendo, it emphasises the major weakness of the study - its episodic character ; its genesis as a series of essays.
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Two more essays are valuable for their suggestive methods of analysis ; in both cases it is easy to imagine further uses for these techniques.
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Collocationswithessay

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autobiographical essay
He also asked students to write anautobiographicalessayeach year.
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bibliographic essay
The chapters are preceded and followed by an historical timeline and a short biographical section, glossary, bibliographic essay and index.
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brief essay
This last context of waiting is the subject of thisbriefessay.
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