There were short letters full of tiny compliments that only a seven-year-old would notice.

这些短信写满的是一个年仅７岁的孩子纯真的问候。

He pulled off the parchment, unrolled it, and saw the shortest letter Sirius had ever written to him.

哈利抽出那张羊皮纸，展开，看见的是小天狼星跟他通信以来写得最短的一封信。

But again it was a short, strange letter.

但这又是一封简短而奇怪的信。

Finally at the beginning of July a letter came from Naoko. A short letter.

终于在七月初，直子收到了一封信。一封简短的信。

I looked at the last, short letter. 'Look, a letter from Anne of Cleves, Henry's fourth wife.'

我看着最后一封简短的信。 “看，一封来自亨利第四任妻子克利夫斯安妮的信。”

" I was only thinking I'd never seen such short letters from women. Neither one fills the first page" .

“我只是在想我从来没有见过女性写的这么短的信。第一页都没有写满” 。

Then Beth wrote a short letter and, with Laurie's help, left it with the slippers in the old man's study one morning, before he was up.

然后白丝写了一张简短的字条，在罗瑞的帮助下，有一天早晨，趁老先生还没起床时将字条和拖鞋放进了他的书房。

I sent Margot a picture of Dean Martin and wrote her a short letter updating her on his well-being, just to calm my nerves.

我给玛戈特发了一张迪恩·马丁的照片，并给她写了一封简短的信，向她介绍了他的健康状况，只是为了安抚我的神经。

Notes are short letters written for various purposes. Compared with a letter, a note is simpler in form and often informal or colloquial in language.

笔记是为了各种目的而写的短信。与信件相比，便条在形式上更简单，在语言上通常是非正式的或口语化的。

There was also a short letter from the Count to his wife: after reading it, Newland Archer rose, jammed the papers back into their envelope, and reentered Mr. Letterblair's office.

还有一封伯爵写给他妻子的短信：纽兰·阿切尔读完后起身，将文件塞回信封， 然后重新进入莱特布莱尔先生的办公室。

To make this clear to Deering became an overwhelming need, and in a last short letter she explicitly freed him from whatever sentimental obligation its predecessors might have seemed to impose.

让迪林明白这一点成为一种压倒性的需要，在最后一封简短的信中，她明确地让他摆脱了其前任似乎强加的任何情感义务。

She could not bear such suspense; and hastily seizing a sheet of paper, wrote a short letter to her aunt, to request an explanation of what Lydia had dropt, if it were compatible with the secrecy which had been intended.

她无论如何也摸不着头脑，实在难受，于是连忙拿起一张纸，写了封短短的信给舅母，请求她把丽迪雅刚才无意中泄露出来的那句话解释一下，只要与原来保守秘密的计划能够并行不悖就是了。

What use he meant to make of these new experiences no one knew, for he wrote short letters and, when questioned, answered with imperturbable patience: " Wait till I get through; then I'll come home and talk about it" .

没有人知道他打算如何利用这些新经历，因为他写了一些简短的信件，当被问到时，他以泰然自若的耐心回答：“等我完成；然后我会回家谈谈”。