epistle

/ih-pis-uhl/US // ɪˈpɪs əl //UK // (ɪˈpɪsəl) //

书信,信件,信札,函件

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : a letter, especially a formal or didactic one; written communication.
- : one of the apostolic letters in the New Testament.
- : an extract, usually from one of the Epistles of the New Testament, forming part of the Eucharistic service in certain churches.

nounletter

Synonyms

All these actors forced questions onto the agenda of the British and the colonists, but few of them produced the kind of epistles that this book examines.
On Halloween Ed proved he has not been forgotten when he published a now-famous epistle in response to the Jian Ghomeshi scandal.
There was plenty more like this--every epistle dumber than the previous--but you get the general idea.
Ripperda accompanied this unexpected refusal, with a laboured epistle to his imperial friend.
Enclosed within this long epistle was a brief note from Mariamne.
Without a word the sailor took the epistle, read it slowly, while the boy watched him keenly, then thrust it under his pillow.
These last three verses are a kind of preface to the following chapter, which is written in the style of an epistle from the king.
Horace combats this prejudice with equal force and address in his fine epistle to Augustus.

/ih-pis-uhl/US // ɪˈpɪs əl //UK // (ɪˈpɪsəl) //

书信,信件,信札,函件

n.名词 noun

1
- : a letter, especially a formal or didactic one; written communication.
- : one of the apostolic letters in the New Testament.
- : an extract, usually from one of the Epistles of the New Testament, forming part of the Eucharistic service in certain churches.

nounletter

Synonyms

All these actors forced questions onto the agenda of the British and the colonists, but few of them produced the kind of epistles that this book examines.
On Halloween Ed proved he has not been forgotten when he published a now-famous epistle in response to the Jian Ghomeshi scandal.
There was plenty more like this--every epistle dumber than the previous--but you get the general idea.
Ripperda accompanied this unexpected refusal, with a laboured epistle to his imperial friend.
Enclosed within this long epistle was a brief note from Mariamne.
Without a word the sailor took the epistle, read it slowly, while the boy watched him keenly, then thrust it under his pillow.
These last three verses are a kind of preface to the following chapter, which is written in the style of an epistle from the king.
Horace combats this prejudice with equal force and address in his fine epistle to Augustus.