Literature is a way and means to express the objective world and subjective understanding by using oral or written language as the medium. When words are not only used for recording (history books, news reports, scientific papers, etc.).
文学，是一种用口语或文字作为媒介，表达客观世界和主观认识的方式和手段。当文字不单单用来记录（史书、新闻报道、科学论文等）。
Only when they are endowed with other thoughts and emotions and have the beauty of art can they be called literature and art, which belongs to language art. Poetry, prose, novels, dramas, novels, plays, fables, fairy tales and other different genres.
而被赋予其他思想和情感，并具有了艺术之美，才可称为文学艺术，属于语言艺术。诗歌、散文、小说、剧小说、剧本、寓言、童话等不同体裁。
It is an important form of literature. Literature in different forms, namely genres, expresses inner feelings and reproduces social life in a certain period and region.
是文学的重要表现形式。文学以不同的形式即体裁，表现内心情感，再现一定时期和一定地域的社会生活。
Literature, in its broadest sense, is any single body of written works. More restrictively, it is writing considered as an art form, or any single writing deemed to have artistic or intellectual value, often due to deploying language in ways that differ from ordinary usage.本回答被网友采纳
e.g.
her place in literature is secure
2、the humanistic study of a body of literature
e.g.
he took a course in Russian lit
Synonym:
lit
3、creative writing of recognized artistic value
4、published writings in a particular style on a particular subject
e.g.
the technical literature
one aspect of Waterloo has not yet been treated in the literature