protasis

/prot-uh-sis/US // ˈprɒt ə sɪs //UK // (ˈprɒtəsɪs) //

原生态,原态,原生境,原生质

Definitions

n.名词 noun

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plural prot·a·ses [prot-uh-seez]. /ˈprɒt əˌsiz/.
- : Grammar. the clause expressing the condition in a conditional sentence, in English usually beginning with if.Compare apodosis.
- : the first part of an ancient drama, in which the characters are introduced and the subject is proposed.Compare catastasis, catastrophe, epitasis.
- : a proposition, especially one used as a premise in a syllogism.

The apodosis (qu'est-ce que je ferais) is omitted and only the protasis is expressed.
Positing what protasis would the contraction for such several schemes become a natural and necessary apodosis?
It is a protasis of the complex order, as M. Lysidas used to say.
It went off, as G. assured M., exactly as the opening act of a piece—the protasis—should do.
It is the custom of lovers to abuse of the gorgiaques figures from the very protasis and exordium.