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appendix

/uh-pen-diks/US // əˈpɛn dɪks //UK // (əˈpɛndɪks) //

附录,阑尾,阑珊,阑尾炎

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural ap·pen·di·ces [uh-pen-duh-seez], /əˈpɛn dəˌsiz/, ap·pen·dix·es.

    • : supplementary material at the end of a book, article, document, or other text, usually of an explanatory, statistical, or bibliographic nature.
    • : an appendage.
    • : Anatomy. a process or projection.the vermiform appendix.
    • : Aeronautics. the short tube at the bottom of a balloon bag, by which the intake and release of buoyant gas is controlled.

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Examples

  • Jones missed all but one game in the 1953-1954 season because of a ruptured appendix.

  • Much of that data was included in the appendix to the report.

  • An appendix published years later clarifying those federal rules, which more cleanly describe mobility challenges, states mental illnesses are not considered a disability under the federal transit rules.

  • The neighborhood updated its community plan in 2018 and devoted a whole appendix on planning for sea level rise.

  • When he was 12, his appendix burst and he underwent emergency surgery, followed by a desperate eight-hour ambulance ride to another hospital in search of better medication to stop the bleeding.

  • The longtime justice, appointed by President Clinton, added a lengthy appendix of evidence he found relevant to his dissent.

  • Things go well until Oscar the Grouch is diagnosed with a burst appendix and Romney discovers he is uninsured.

  • That appendix is taken more seriously because it is between the covers of a holy book.

  • Comes with the funniest footnotes and appendix (no kidding) ever written.

  • The procedure is now the most common surgery performed in the U.S.—more common than getting your tonsils or appendix removed.

  • I shall then give an account of my various excursions in an Appendix, and afterwards resume the thread of my journal.

  • The geological character of this rock is more fully treated upon in the Appendix by my friend Dr. Fitton.

  • See Appendix I for the exact facts which were not known to me until long afterwards.

  • Mr. Brae, in the Appendix to his edition of Chaucer's Astrolabe (p. 101), has a long note on the present passage.

  • The table as prepared is set out in Appendix A to this report.