英 ：[ˈeseɪ]
美 ：[ˈeseɪ]
- n. 散文；试图；随笔
- vt. 尝试；对…做试验
例句,用法
- 1.
可数名词的用法：An essay is a short piece of writing on a particular subject written by a student. (学生写的) 短文
例：We asked Jason to write an essay about his hometown.
我们让杰森写一篇关于他家乡的短文。
- 2.
可数名词的用法：An essay is a short piece of writing on a particular subject that is written by a writer for publication. (作家写的) 文章
例：...Thomas Malthus's essay on population.
…托马斯·马尔萨斯关于人口的文章。
词组短语
essay testn. 申论方式测验
近义词
- n. 散文；试图；随笔
- vt. 尝试；对…做试验
词语辨析
article, paper, theme, composition, dissertation, essay, prose, thesis这组词都有“文章”的意思，其区别是：
article 多指在报刊、杂志上发表的非文艺性的文章，包括新闻报导、学术论文等。
paper 正式用词，多指在学术刊物上发表或在学术会议上宣读的专题论文，也指高等学校的学期论文，或学校里的作文练习。
theme 一般指大学或高中生作为作业所写的篇幅有限、较完整论述某个观点的文章。也可指作品或谈话的主要论题。
composition 多指学校里老师给学生的作文练习。
dissertation 书面语用词，指独立研究后所写的较为详细的专题文章；也可指学位论文。
essay 指任何一种非小说性的，篇幅不长、结构简练的文章，如论说文、报道、评论、讽刺性杂文等。
prose 专指散文。
thesis 既可指毕业论文、学位论文，又可指一般的为阐述学术观点而写的论文。
More than seventy-five percent of students choose to print their essay on the test rather than write in cursive.
It's a huge book which is all about this short story by Balzac, "Sarrasine," that he begins this essay by quoting.
这本大部头的书都是在讲巴尔扎克的短篇小说《沙拉辛》的，在文章开头他引用道。
So I was reading Media, and I have to write an essay about it. So that's what I was doing.
我在读与媒介有关的内容，需要写一篇有关的论文。那是我之前在做的。
For instance, the contemporary essay likes to display its postmodernity by showing us its workings.
For all its great length, it miraculously retains the pace and exhilaration of an iconoclastic essay.
On January 6, 1973, the anthropologist Margaret Mead published a startling little essay in TV Guide.