(noun.) the literary culture; 'this book shows American letters at its best'.
(noun.) scholarly attainment; 'he is a man of letters'.
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双语例句
With perfect coolness Holmes slipped across to the safe, filled his two arms with bundles of letters, and poured them all into the fire. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔.福尔摩斯归来记.
It is written in letters, not figures,--twenty thousand. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.简·爱.
As the Indians had no letters, they had no orthography. 本杰明·富兰克林.富兰克林自传.
Mr. Gardiner had waited only for the letters before he set off. 简·奥斯汀.傲慢与偏见.
In the same odd way, yet with the same rapidity, he then produced singly, and rubbed out singly, the letters forming the words Bleak House. 查尔斯·狄更斯.荒凉山庄.
She could write letters enough for both, as she knew to her cost, and it was far better for him to be amiable than learned. 查尔斯·狄更斯.荒凉山庄.
Do you decline to take those letters, Mr. Copperfield? 查尔斯·狄更斯.大卫·科波菲尔.
That went round the letters. 查尔斯·狄更斯.荒凉山庄.
Or get letters from it? 阿瑟·柯南·道尔.福尔摩斯回忆录.
I alluded to the coldness of her letters; but the few minutes we had spent together sufficiently explained the origin of this. 玛丽·雪莱.最后一个人.
With a real box for the letters, and all complete,' said the Honourable Mr. Crushton. 查尔斯·狄更斯.匹克威克外传.
We made up a scheme to hold this wire, so he changed one letter of the alphabet and I soon got used to it; and finally we changed three letters. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔.爱迪生的生平和发明.
He looked through the letters first, because it was the most difficult part of the work. 伊迪丝·华顿.快乐之家.
How Tom, genius-like, struck out new paths, and, relinquishing the old names of the letters, called U _bell_ and P _bottle_. 本杰明·富兰克林.富兰克林自传.
I found two letters on my dressing-table; the first I took up was in my young nephew's well-known round text. 哈里特·威尔逊.哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.