资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Correspond \Cor`re*spond"\ (k?r`r?-sp?nd"), v. i. [imp. & p. p.
   {Corresponded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Corresponding}.] [Pref. cor-
   + respond: cf. f. correspondre.]
   1. To be like something else in the dimensions and
      arrangement of its parts; -- followed by with or to; as,
      concurring figures correspond with each other throughout.

            None of them [the forms of Sidney's sonnets]
            correspond to the Shakespearean type. --J. A.
                                                  Symonds.

   2. To be adapted; to be congruous; to suit; to agree; to fit;
      to answer; -- followed by to.

            Words being but empty sounds, any farther than they
            are signs of our ideas, we can not but assent to
            them as they correspond to those ideas we have, but
            no farther.                           --Locke.

   3. To have intercourse or communion; especially, to hold
      intercourse or to communicate by sending and receiving
      letters; -- followed by with.

            After having been long in indirect communication
            with the exiled family, he [Atterbury] began to
            correspond directly with the Pretender. --Macaulay.

   Syn: To agree; fit; answer; suit; write; address.