- [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
Extra ExamplesHe 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
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- confidential
- personal
- private
- …
- item
- pile
- enter into
- exchange
- have
- …
- course
- school
- column
- …
- by correspondence
- through correspondence
- in correspondence with
- …
- [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。
Extra ExamplesI 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
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- confidential
- personal
- private
- …
- item
- pile
- enter into
- exchange
- have
- …
- course
- school
- column
- …
- by correspondence
- through correspondence
- in correspondence with
- …
- correspondence (with somebody)
- [countable, uncountable] correspondence (between A and B)
a connection between two things; the fact of two things being similar 相关;相似 Extra ExamplesThe 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
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- direct
- exact
- one-to-one
- …
- correspondence between
Word Originlate 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’.