Parenthesis



GRE 蓝宝

解释

GRE 红宝书

• n. 插入话; 括弧
• ［英］ n. 插入话 ( phrase or sentence inserted in a passage)
• ［记］ 分割记忆: parent ( 父母) ＋thesis ( 论文) , 源自paren ( =para) ＋thesis ( 放) -> 放在旁边的话 -> 插入语

Webster Collegiate

noun (plural parentheses)

• Etymology: Late Latin, from Greek, literally, act of inserting, from parentithenai to insert, from para- + en- en- + tithenai to place — more at do
• Date: circa 1550
• 1.
  • a. an amplifying or explanatory word, phrase, or sentence inserted in a passage from which it is usually set off by punctuation
  • b. a remark or passage that departs from the theme of a discourse ; digression
• 2. interlude, interval
• 3. one or both of the curved marks ( ) used in writing and printing to enclose a parenthetical expression or to group a symbolic unit in a logical or mathematical expression
• ? parenthetical also parenthetic adjective
• ? parenthetically adverb

---