letter：信；字母，文字；证书；文学，学问；字面意义 vt. 写字母于 vi. 写印刷体字母 n. （ Letter ）（美、英、巴西）莱特（人名） 语料库共检中 7,481 条：美剧 849 · 电影 368 · 原著 5000 · 演讲 1264
真实语境例句（按库分组，共 18 条展示）
Emerson looked at it, and said mournfully: "Thank you." Then he picked up the pen, and writing the single letter "R" stopped, followed his finger until it reached the "W" of Waldo, and studiously copied letter by letter! At the word "Concord" he seemed to hesitate, as if the task were too great, but finally copied again, letter by letter, until the second "c" was reached. "Another 'o,'" he said, and interpolated an extra letter in the name of the town which he had done so much to make famous the world over. When he had finished he handed back the book, in which there was written:英文原著 · 《The Americanization of Edward Bok》
As I was to leave at dawn next day, I remained up all night, thinking that I ought to do. Finally I decided to write. I wrote her a letter, telling her all and begging her to become my wife. I gave the letter to your slave, Sam, and told him it was a matter of life and death, and not to lose the letter nor fail to give it to Betty. I have had no answer to that letter. Today she coldly ignored me. That is my story, Col. Zane."
"Well, I don't believe she got the letter," said Col.英文原著 · 《Betty Zane》
Though faint, I was not confused, and I gave my story in brief, hurried, yet sufficient words. He made no sign till I mentioned the letter. Then his face changed. "A letter, too?" he exclaimed, in a strange mixture of increased apprehension and unlooked-for joy. "Yes, a letter, too; she wrote a letter, and I carried that as well as the box. I've lost them both, Rudolf. God help me, I've lost them both! Rupert has the letter too!" I think I must have been weak and unmanned from the blow I had received, for my composure broke down here.英文原著 · 《Rupert of Hentzau》
Occasionally he sent to an editor here and there what he thought was a particularly newsy letter just "for his information, not for sale." The editor of the Philadelphia Times was the first to discover that his paper wanted the letter, and the Boston Journal followed suit. Then the editor of the Cincinnati Times-Star discovered the letter in the New York Star, and asked that it be supplied weekly with the letter. These newspapers renamed the letter "Bok's Literary Leaves," and the feature started on its successful career.英文原著 · 《The Americanization of Edward Bok》
Of letters addressed to my father I have not made much use. It was his custom to file all letters received, and when his slender stock of files ("spits" as he called them) was exhausted, he would burn the letters of several years, in order that he might make use of the liberated "spits." This process, carried on for years, destroyed nearly all letters received before 1862. After that date he was persuaded to keep the more interesting letters, and these are preserved in an accessible form.英文原著 · 《The Life and Letters-1》
1835, Borrow writes: "To translate literally, or even closely, according to the common acceptation of the term, into the Manchu language is of all impossibilities the greatest; partly from the grammatical structure of the language, and partly from the abundance of its idioms." The lack of "some of those conjunctions generally considered as indispensable" was one of the chief difficulties. {138b} Letter, 31st Dec. {139a} Letter, 31st Dec. {139b} Letter, 20th Feb./4th Mar. {139c} Letter, 20th Feb./4th Mar. {139d} Letter to the Rev. Jowett, 3rd/15th May 1835. {139e} Ibid.英文原著 · 《The Life of George Borrow》
Replace the blanks in this sentence with two three-letter words made from the same letters: "The woman decided to blank the beast where he lay rather than blank him home." She decided to blank. it's a three-letter word?美剧 · 《Billions》
Should the recipient of this letter encounter my wife..." "please feel free to show her this letter "and assure her of its wide distribution "to hospitals and physicians across this and two neighboring states." Does this seem too warm to you?美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》
- He gave me another letter today. - He gave you a letter today?美剧 · 《Lie to me》
It's a letter, Lisa -- a rejection letter on HOA stationery.美剧 · 《Modern Family》
L it truly a habit to them, their dropping a letter like the letter H, using it where it doesn't belong, like "hever" instead of "ever"?电影 · 《My Fair Lady (1964)》