n.信；字母

v.写下；印刷

n.租赁人

She balled the letter into a wad. 她将信揉成一团。

I acknowledged her letter at once. 我马上告知收到了她的信。

The kids are learning to trace the letter. 孩子们学描字母。

He wrote these words after he had lapped up his letter. 他是把信折好以后才又写下了这些话的。

While composing a letter on a computer you may interrupt the computer's rest with a short burst of key pounding and then let it return to idleness as you compose the next sentence. 当你在计算机上写信时，随着敲击键盘产生的短脉冲会打断计算机的休息，接着当你写下一句话的时候，它会返回到无所事事的状态。

The printer has dropped a letter here. 印刷者在这儿遗漏了一个字母。

I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. 我学习写带短截线和不带短截线的印刷字体，根据不同字母组合调整其间距，以及怎样把版式调整得好上加好。

letter的基本意思是“信,函件”,主要指私人之间的往来信件,也可指英文中的26个“字母”。在古旧用法或文学用语中,其复数常可表示“文学”或“文化修养”。

to the letter的意思是“严格地,一丝不苟地”。

letter偶尔也可用作及物动词,意为“以字母标记”。