| 词汇 | essay |
| 词源 | essay. Montaigne’s Essais, published in France in 1580, were the first in history to bear the name essay for a literary compo- sition, while Bacon’s Essays Dedicated to Prince Henry (1597) were the first in English to use the name. “To write treatises,” Bacon explained, “requireth leisure in the writer and leisure in the reader . . . which is the cause which hath made me choose to write certain brief notes . . . which I have called essays. The word is late, but the thing is ancient.” There are three words for short essays, none of which is used very much, if at all, any- more: “essaykin,” “essaylet,” and “essayette.” |
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