词汇精选：correspondence的用法和辨析

一、详细释义：

n.

往来书信

例句：

He always replied to his correspondence.

来信他总是会回。

例句：

I've got through a lot of correspondence today.

今天我处理了一大批信件。

通信

例句：

I got into correspondence with that girl whom I had met at the party last month.

我已开始与我在上月聚会时认识的那位姑娘通信了。

例句：

I had kept up a correspondence with him until the war broke out.

在战争爆发之前我一直与他保持通信联系。

关联，一致，相似，相当

例句：

Relation and relationship can indicate a similarity or correspondence between things.

relation和relationship可以表示事物之间的相似处或一致性。

例句：

In African languages there is a close correspondence between sounds and letters.

非洲语言中的发音与字母关系密切。

二、词义辨析：

letter,note,correspondence,message

这些名词均有“信”之意。letter最普通用词，泛指一切形式的书信，尤指邮寄的信。note指内容直截了当的短信或便条，正式或非正式均可。correspondence集合名词，指全部来往信件。message指书信、口信、电报等。

三、相关短语：

correspondence school

n. 函授学校

correspondence course

n. 函授课程

四、参考例句：

All my correspondence is up-to-date.

我所有的通信手段都是跟上时代的。

Please quote this reference in all correspondence .

请在所有通信中将此引文出处用括号括起来。

I've fallen behind with my correspondence.

我积压了许多信件没回。

How long does the study of a correspondence course last?

整个函授学习的时间要持续多久？

Our correspondence is limited to a few commercial letters.

我们之间的通信只限于几封商业函件。

I've got through a lot of correspondence today.

今天我处理了一大批信件。

She refused to enter into correspondence with him.

她拒绝跟他开始通信。

A file cannot be restricted to correspondence alone.

档案不仅仅只局限于信函。

No private correspondence could bear the eye of others.

私人信件是不容许他人过目的。

I received uncensored correspondence from a theater of military operations.

我收到来自战区的未经检查的信件。