missive

英 [ˈmɪsɪv]

美 [ˈmɪsɪv]

n.  信函; (尤指)长信，公函

复数：missives　

GRE

BNC.21830 / COCA.21170

牛津词典

noun

• 信函；（尤指）长信，公函
  a letter, especially a long or an official one

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 信件;函件
  Amissiveis a letter or other message that someone sends.
  1. ...the customary missive from your dear mother.
     你老母亲来的一封家信

英英释义

noun

• a written message addressed to a person or organization
  1. mailed an indignant letter to the editor
  Synonym:letter

双语例句

• Planning to do just that I mentioned the missive to a manager, who immediately advised me to resist the temptation to react.
  就在我打算这么干的时候，我向一位经理提到了这封信，他立即建议我抵住诱惑，不要做出反应。
• Can you read this missive, ducky?
  你能读出这信的内容吗，达克？
• Today's missive is about supply constraints.
  今天很大篇幅会讲到供应方面。
• Mercury will send a sparkling missive to Uranus, planet of surprise, and this time the surprises you get will be ones you'll find completely captivating.
  水星将会发出封闪闪发光的信件到达天王星，这是惊喜的标志，而且这次收到的惊喜将会是在你看来非常非常迷人的。
• Your missive, while complete in other regards, skirted the subject of cost.
  你的信件虽然在其他方面很周全，但却回避了成本问题。
• Notwithstanding, my journey homeward was sadder than my journey thither; and many misgivings I had, ere I could prevail on myself to put the missive into Mrs Linton's hand.
  虽然如此，我在回家的旅途上比我来时更悲哀些；在我能说服自己把信交到林惇夫人的手中之前，我是有着许多忧惧的。
• In the simple, but plainly expressed missive the singer dubbed the Man in Black writes 'you're the object of my desire, the# 1 Earthly reason for my existence'.
  在这封简短但表达真挚的情书中，绰号为黑衣人的约翰尼-卡什写道：你是我渴望的对象，是我生存于世的唯一理由。
• In this connected age, you don't have to post a missive on a website for everyone to learn about it.
  格雷厄姆建议，在这个沟通无障碍的时代，不必非得在网站上大张旗鼓地发布离职声明。
• A confused, disoriented state of mind. Missive. You send a one-way telepathic message to subject.
  晕头转向心境的混乱、迷失方向的状态心灵短讯：向目标送出一条单向的心灵短讯。
• But due to the high proportion of bridge and tunnel, the poor transportation, a lot of traction transformers of AT power supply and missive civil engineering, it is more difficult to set up stations and operation maintenance for the electrified railway in mountain area.
  但对于山区电气化铁路来说，由于其桥隧的比例高，交通不便，AT供电方式牵引变电所设施较多，土建工程较大，运行维护难度也较大。