Essay

(noun.) a tentative attempt.

(noun.) an analytic or interpretive literary composition.

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• He wrote an essay on his invention, and circulated it among his friends and teachers. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• It was neither tale nor poem, neither essay nor history; it neither sung, nor related, not discussed. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Wells' little essay: Skepticism of the Instrument. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• James made it articulate in his essay on The Moral Equivalent of War. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• That worthy lady being unable to obtain one, and being steadfastly denied admission, Mr Meagles besought Arthur to essay once more what he could do. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• But in 1695, the common price of silver bullion was six shillings and fivepence an ounce, {Lowndes's Essay on the Silver Coin, 68. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Did an elderly gentleman essay to stop the progress of the ball, it rolled between his legs or slipped between his fingers. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Readers of the Fabian Essays know Mr. Wallas and appreciate the work of his group. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• But we may well consider these reconstructions as contributory essays and experiments in the general constructive effort. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• These essays, then, are an attempt to sketch an attitude towards statecraft. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• There, at least, no rich people are buying anything, and no military men are reading essays on the next war. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Baden Powell, in his Essays on the Unity of Worlds, 1855. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• I write essays; and, with deliberate forgerysign to them my pupils' names, and boast of them as their work. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Two or three essays read in this society were published. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Once more he essayed the effort, but a qualm of nausea overwhelmed him. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• It must be by your management then, gallant yeoman, said Ivanhoe; for each hint I have essayed to give him serves only to induce him to prolong it. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• But even in the midst of that paroxysm, he still essayed to repeat his favourite introduction of himself, 'Pa-ancks the gi-ipsy, fortune-telling. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Mrs. Corney twice essayed to speak: and twice failed. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• It was a long climb up the face of the building, and one fraught with much danger, but there was no other way, and so I essayed the task. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• Which makes three,' observed Mr. Bumble, essaying a stroke of facetiousness. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.

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