parenthesis 的定义
plural pa·ren·the·ses [puh-ren-thuh-seez]. /pəˈrɛn θəˌsiz/.
- either or both of a pair of signs used in writing to mark off an interjected explanatory or qualifying remark, to indicate separate groupings of symbols in mathematics and symbolic logic, etc.
- Usually parentheses. the material contained within these marks.
- Grammar. a qualifying, explanatory, or appositive word, phrase, clause, or sentence that interrupts a syntactic construction without otherwise affecting it, having often a characteristic intonation and indicated in writing by commas, parentheses, or dashes, as in William Smith—you must know him—is coming tonight.
- an interval.
parenthesis 近义词
digression
更多parenthesis例句
- Our roundup includes the inflation-adjusted price in parentheses, the year the deal took place, and a comment on whether the acquisition paid off.
- In parentheses are the number of points you earn for each case.
- The attack on the World Trade Center's towers (and on the Pentagon, that breathtaking parenthesis) was a brilliant act of jujitsu.
- “When you have a food label and see quite a lot of parenthesis—first tip that your food may be highly fabricated,” she says.
- He drops the parenthesis about the great Variety of entertaining Incidents, and he diminishes these engaging Scenes to it.
- What a tendency there is to round off a narrative into falsehood; or else by parenthesis to destroy its pith and continuity.
- Page 365: closing parenthesis added after "particular shape"
- Page 388: closing parenthesis added after "assumption of omniscience"
- Let me tell you in a parenthesis that he is going to the army to join the King.