correspondence
noun /ˌkɒrəˈspɒndəns/
/ˌkɔːrəˈspɑːndəns/
(formal)- [uncountable] the letters, emails, etc. a person sends and receives
来往信件；往来书信 - personal/private correspondence
私人来往信件 - The editor welcomes correspondence from readers on any subject.
编辑欢迎读者有关任何问题的来信。 - the correspondence column/page (= in a newspaper)
读者来信专栏／版面 - correspondence with somebody Jane Austen's correspondence with her sister
简 · 奥斯汀与她姐姐的往来信件
- He was leafing through piles of correspondence.
他正在迅速翻阅一摞摞的信件。 - I have seen the correspondence between the company and the college.
我曾看过公司与大学之间的往来信函。 - Numerous items of correspondence have been received on this subject.
关于这个话题，我们已经收到大量来信。 - Please send correspondence to ‘Money Monthly’.
请将信件寄往《财富月刊》。 - The department intercepted the correspondence of foreign diplomats.
该部门截取了外国外交官的信件。 - The secretary deals with all the correspondence.
秘书处理所有的信件。 - copies of her correspondence with the composer
她与作曲家来往信件的复印件 - files full of confidential correspondence relating to the company's expansion plans
全是有关公司扩张计划机密信函的卷宗 - the correspondence columns of the ‘London Review of Books’
《伦敦书评》的读者来信栏
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- confidential
- personal
- private
- …
- item
- pile
- enter into
- exchange
- have
- …
- course
- school
- column
- …
- by correspondence
- through correspondence
- in correspondence with
- …
- personal/private correspondence
- [uncountable, countable] the activity of writing letters
通信；通信联系 - correspondence (with somebody) I refused to enter into any correspondence (= to exchange letters) with him about it.
我拒绝就此问题与他通信联系。 - in correspondence We have been in correspondence for months.
我们通信几个月了。 - We kept up a correspondence for many years.
我们保持了很多年的通信联系。
- I have been in correspondence with the manager of the store.
我一直与商店经理通信。 - I have had correspondence with the company director on this matter.
我已经就这件事和公司董事通过信了。 - I would spend the time reading or catching up on my correspondence.
我要花点儿时间读信，处理一下堆积的信函。 - It would be foolish for a doctor to enter into correspondence with a patient.
对一个医生来说，与病人进行书信来往是一件愚蠢的事。 - a lively correspondence in ‘The Times’ about ways of preparing tripe
《泰晤士报》上一封生动描述烹制牛肚的来信
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- confidential
- personal
- private
- …
- item
- pile
- enter into
- exchange
- have
- …
- course
- school
- column
- …
- by correspondence
- through correspondence
- in correspondence with
- …
- correspondence (with somebody) I refused to enter into any correspondence (= to exchange letters) with him about it.
- [countable, uncountable] correspondence (between A and B) a connection between two things; the fact of two things being similar
相关；相似 - There is a close correspondence between the two extracts.
这两段摘录如出一辙。
- The child can see the one-to-one correspondence of the buttons and buttonholes.
这个孩子能看出钮扣和扣眼之间一一对应的关系。 - a close correspondence between theory and practice
理论和实践之间的密切联系
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- direct
- exact
- one-to-one
- …
- correspondence between
- There is a close correspondence between the two extracts.
词源late Middle English: via Old French from medieval Latin correspondentia, from correspondent- ‘corresponding’ from the verb correspondere, from cor- ‘together’ + Latin respondere, from re- ‘again’ + spondere ‘to pledge’.