epistle

1. N-COUNT An epistle is a letter. 書信[文學(xué)性]

2. N-COUNT In the Bible, the Epistles are a series of books in the New Testament that were originally written as letters to the early Christians. 使徒書信; 《圣經(jīng)·新約》中的各卷書，原為早期基督徒的書信[usu N 'to' n]