1 N-UNCOUNT (写下或印出的)文字 Writing is something that has been written or printed. (写下或印出的)文字
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'It's from a notebook,' the sheriff said, 'And there's writing on it.'. [+ on]
“这是在一个笔记本里找到的,”法官道,“上面还有文字。”
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If you have a complaint about your holiday, please inform us in writing.
如果您对您的假日有什么意见,请书面告知我们。
2 N-UNCOUNT (尤指评论语言风格时的)文字作品,文章 You can refer to any piece of written work as writing, especially when you are considering the style of language used in it. (尤指评论语言风格时的)文字作品,文章
3 N-UNCOUNT (尤指为赚取稿费而进行的)写作 Writing is the activity of writing, especially of writing books for money. (尤指为赚取稿费而进行的)写作
4 N-UNCOUNT [usually poss NOUN] 笔迹;字迹;书写 Your writing is the way that you write with a pen or pencil, which can usually be recognized as belonging to you. 笔迹;字迹;书写
SYN script, hand, print, printing
5 N-PLURAL [usually with poss] (尤指某一作者有关某一专题的全部)著作,作品 An author's writings are all the things that he or she has written, especially on a particular subject. (尤指某一作者有关某一专题的全部)著作,作品
SYN document, work, book, letter
6 PHRASE 凶兆毕现;有大难临头的预兆 If you say that the writing is on the wall, you mean that there are clear signs that a situation is going to become very difficult or unpleasant. 凶兆毕现;有大难临头的预兆
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The writing is clearly on the wall. If we do nothing about it, we shall only have ourselves to blame.
凶兆显而易见。如果我们对此毫无行动,就只能怨自己了。
Quotations
Writing, at its best, is a lonely life Ernest Hemingway speech, accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature
I think writing does come out of a deep well of loneliness and a desire to fill some kind of gap Jay McInerney
Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction of writing - one can impersonate so many people Katherine Mansfield letter
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure Samuel Johnson Johnsonian Miscellanies
Many suffer from the incurable disease of writing, and it becomes chronic in their sick minds Juvenal Satires
All writing is garbage Antonin Artaud Selected Writings
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