Her mother sends her a long epistle every week. 母亲每周给她写封长信。
He wrote a lengthy epistle describing his college life. 他写了一封冗长的长信描述他的大学生活。
I Tertius, who wrote this epistle, salute you in the Lord. 22 我这代笔写信的德丢,在主里面问你们安。
epistle
[ noun ]
a specially long, formal letter
<noun.communication>
a book of the New Testament written in the form of a letter from an Apostle
<noun.communication>
Epistle \E*pis"tle\, n. [OE. epistle, epistel, AS. epistol, pistol, L. epistola, fr. Gr. ? anything sent by a messenger, message, letter, fr. ? to send to, tell by letter or message; 'epi` upon, to + ? to dispatch, send; cf. OF. epistle, epistre, F. ['e]p[^i]tre. See {Stall}.] 1. A writing directed or sent to a person or persons; a written communication; a letter; -- applied usually to formal, didactic, or elegant letters.
A madman's epistles are no gospels. --Shak.
2. (Eccl.) One of the letters in the New Testament which were addressed to their Christian brethren by Apostles.
{Epistle side}, the right side of an altar or church to a person looking from the nave toward the chancel.
One sees the pulpit on the epistle side. --R. Browning.
Epistle \E*pis"tle\, v. t. To write; to communicate in a letter or by writing. [Obs.] --Milton.