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ellipsis

/ih-lip-sis/US // ɪˈlɪp sɪs //UK // (ɪˈlɪpsɪs) //

省略号,省略语,节略号,节选

Related Words

allegory寓言故事,寓言,寓意,比喻allusion典故,暗喻,押韵analogy类比,比方说,比喻,比拟anticlimax反高潮,反高潮期,反高潮部分,反高潮期的antithesis对立面,对立统一,对偶,反义词bathos浴场,浴缸,浴池,浴盆comparison比较,比较法conceit构想,构思,观念,自负device设备,装置euphemism委婉语,委婉的说法,委婉说法,委婉语气euphuism安乐主义,安乐死主义,安乐死,安乐窝exaggeration夸大其词,夸大其辞,夸张,夸大之词expression表情,表现,表达方式,表达flourish兴旺,兴旺发达,兴盛,兴起flower花,花卉,花朵,花儿hyperbole夸夸其谈,夸大其词,夸夸其谈的说法,夸夸其谈的话语image形象,图像,影像,画面imagery图像,意象,影像,想象力irony反语,反话,反语法,讽刺metaphor比喻,比拟,比方说,比喻性

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural el·lip·ses [ih-lip-seez]. /ɪˈlɪp siz/.

    • : Grammar. the omission from a sentence or other construction of one or more words that would complete or clarify the construction, as the omission of who are, while I am, or while we are from I like to interview people sitting down.the omission of one or more items from a construction in order to avoid repeating the identical or equivalent items that are in a preceding or following construction, as the omission of been to Paris from the second clause of I've been to Paris, but they haven't.
    • : Printing. a mark or marks as ——, …, or * * *, to indicate an omission or suppression of letters or words.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as infigure of speech
Forms: ellipses
Synonyms
adumbration鸣金收兵,鸣锣开道,鸣谢,鸣笛allegory寓言故事,寓言,寓意,比喻alliteration典故,拟声词,牵强附会,押韵allusion典故,暗喻,押韵analogue类比,模拟,类比的,模拟法analogy类比,比方说,比喻,比拟anaphora拟态,隐喻,隐喻法,隐喻性anticlimax反高潮,反高潮期,反高潮部分,反高潮期的antistrophe对立面,对立统一,对立派,对立面的antithesis对立面,对立统一,对偶,反义词aposiopesis吐血症,吐真剂,吐血事件,吐痰apostrophe撇号,省略号,撇去,撇开不谈asyndeton阿斯德顿,芦苇荡bathos浴场,浴缸,浴池,浴盆communication that is not meant literally; stylistic device非字面意思的交流；文体手段comparison比较,比较法conceit构想,构思,观念,自负device设备,装置echoism回声主义,呼应主义,回响主义,回音壁euphemism委婉语,委婉的说法,委婉说法,委婉语气euphuism安乐主义,安乐死主义,安乐死,安乐窝exaggeration夸大其词,夸大其辞,夸张,夸大之词expression表情,表现,表达方式,表达flourish兴旺,兴旺发达,兴盛,兴起flower花,花卉,花朵,花儿hyperbole夸夸其谈,夸大其词,夸夸其谈的说法,夸夸其谈的话语image形象,图像,影像,画面imagery图像,意象,影像,想象力irony反语,反话,反语法,讽刺litotes锂电,锂元素,锂离子电池,锂电产品malapropism恶语伤人,错别字,恶搞manner of speaking语气,语气词,口气,说话方式metaphor比喻,比拟,比方说,比喻性metonymy换词法,换词,换言之,换句话说onomatopoeia拟声词,象声词,拟音词,拟声法ornament装饰品,饰物,饰品,装饰物oxymoron悖论,逆喻,逆向思维,逆喻法parable比喻,比方说,比拟paradox悖论,矛盾,悖谬,佯谬parallel平行,平行的,平行线,纬度personification拟人,拟人化,化身,拟态proteron蚖虫,蚖蛇,蚖鱼,蚖狗rhetoric修辞学,言辞,修辞,辞令sarcasm冷嘲热讽,冷笑话,讽刺,讽刺的是satire讽刺,讽刺文学,讽刺诗,讽刺意味simile譬喻说,譬喻,比喻,譬如synecdoche同义词,同义字,同位素,同义反复trope特例,特异功能,特异性,特效tropology热带学,热带生物学,热带地区,热带雨林turn of phrase措辞,措辞的变化,措词,转折点understatement低调的说法,低调,轻描淡写,轻描淡写地说way of speaking说法,说话方式,讲话方式,语气

Examples

  • Kepler’s laws of orbital motion tell us that planets orbit their host stars following ellipses.

  • For instance, the giant planets’ orbits are not circles, but modestly stretched out ellipses.

  • In fact, he showed how all motions in the heavens were versions of circles, ellipses, hyperbolas and parabolas.

  • But I noticed that when you quoted this section on page 116, you left “general welfare” out and put an ellipsis in its place.

  • With this reading, left (l. 22) would be taken as an ellipsis for being left; with the emended reading, for was left.

  • "As soon as I've seen—" and a significant nod supplied the ellipsis.

  • A row of asterisks represents an ellipsis in a poetry quotation.

  • The remaining points connected with the syntax of substantives, are chiefly points of ellipsis.

  • The preceding examples illustrate an apparent paradox, viz., the fact of pleonasm and ellipsis being closely allied.

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