3N-COUNT (校队队衣的)校名首字母标志(以嘉许优秀运动员) If a student earns a letter in sports or athletics by being part of the university or college team, they are entitled to wear on their jacket the initial letter of the name of their university or college. (校队队衣的)校名首字母标志(以嘉许优秀运动员) [US] [US]
Valerie earned letters in three sports: volleyball, basketball, and field hockey. [+ in]
瓦莱丽在排球、篮球和曲棍球三个项目上获得了佩戴校名首字母标志的荣誉。
4VERB 赢得佩戴校名首字母标志的荣誉 If a student letters in sports or athletics by being part of the university or college team, they are entitled to wear on their jacket the initial letter of the name of their university or college. 赢得佩戴校名首字母标志的荣誉 [US] [US]
6PHRASE [preposition PHRASE, PHRASE after verb](钻)法律字眼 If you say that someone keeps to the letter of the law, you mean that they act according to what is actually written in the law, rather than according to the general principles of it, especially when you disapprove of this. (钻)法律字眼
They had stuck to the letter of the law and in my view they should be ashamed.
他们死抠法律字眼。依我看他们应该感到惭愧。
7PHRASE (执行指示)毫厘不爽地,不折不扣地 If you say that someone carries out instructions to the letter, you mean that they do exactly what they are told to do, paying great attention to every detail. (执行指示)毫厘不爽地,不折不扣地
Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle soulsJohn DonneTo Sir Henry Wotton
All letters, methinks, should be free and easy as one's discourse, not studied as an oration, not made up of hard words like a charmDorothy OsborneLetter to William Temple
I have made this [letter] longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorterBlaise PascalLettres Provinciales