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发信人: watergod (共工), 信区: English
标 题: A.Word.A.Day--tractate(转载)
发信站: 哈工大紫丁香 (2000年11月24日21:18:03 星期五), 转信
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tractate (TRAK-tayt) noun
A treatise; an essay.
[Latin tractatus.]
"Oh, I spoke my speech out -- cribbed from Plato's tractate ...."
Robert Browning, Pietro of Abano, 19th C.
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