| 词汇 | postcard |
| 释义 | postcard noun[ C ] uk /ˈpəʊst.kɑːd/ us /ˈpoʊst.kɑːrd/ A2 a card, often with a photograph or picture on one side, that can be sent without an envelope明信片 Susie Adams/Moment/GettyImages a saucy postcard The local shop has a good stock of postcards and guidebooks.本地商店备有大量明信片和旅游指南。 I'll send you a postcard as soon as I get there. Please send in your name and address on a postcard. I must write a few postcards while we're on holiday. Letters, notes and cards aerogramme air letter billet-doux chain letter Christmas card correspondence get-well card greetings card handbill hate mail invitation invite junk mail place card poison-pen letter PPS PS round robin RSVP wire postcard | American Dictionarypostcard noun[ C ] us/ˈpoʊstˌkɑrd/ a small, rectangular card, often with a picture on one side, that can be sent in the mail without an envelope: a picture postcard postcard | Business Englishpostcard noun[ C ] COMMUNICATIONSuk /ˈpəʊstkɑːd/us a small piece of very thin cardboard that you can send by mail without an envelope: They intend to deliver thousands of postcards, signed by staff members demanding bigger annual pay rises. Examples of postcardpostcard Families were recruited through postcards sent to several local neighborhoods, flyers, booths at community functions, and referrals from other participants. Despite the fact that royal postcards were small, mass-produced items with rather impersonal textual messages, they were ver y useful and effective public-relations tools. In addition to postcards, manufacturers distributed small gifts to customers. Local postcards depicting meaningful sites in village life. However, it was not so much the shows as the glamorous idols who provided the attraction for postcard buyers. Many commentators attest to the hypnotic cross-gender and cross-age appeal of postcard images. Especially in the production of postcards this imaginary world is continued, eagerly bought by tourists who thus carry on and cherish illusionary images of reality. But smaller developments may also prove instrumental: those as specific as tourism (and its postcards) and advertising (and its logos). I can write a short, simple postcard, for example sending holiday greetings. Before mailing the questionnaire, a "refuse to participate" postcard was sent (143 physicians refused to participate). This was not unexpected since the postcards were extremely brief and designed to quickly determine whether the technologies were available in the hospitals. The response rate was quite high for the postcards, but considerably lower for the follow-up questionnaires. The response rate was maximized by sending non-responders a postcard reminder followed by a duplicate questionnaire and finally a second postcard reminder. The postcard users are often from extended families whose younger members have been dispersed by the labour market across urban and rural areas. We do not want to see the city as a picture postcard. See all examples of postcard These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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