parenthesis

英 [pəˈrenθəsɪs]

美 [pəˈrenθəsɪs]

n.  插入语

复数：parentheses　

TEM8

BNC.22514 / COCA.15481

牛津词典

noun

• 插入语
  a word, sentence, etc. that is added to a speech or piece of writing, especially in order to give extra information. In writing, it is separated from the rest of the text using brackets, commas or dashes .
  1. Irregular forms are given in parentheses .
     不规则形式标注在括号内。
• 插入语
  a word, sentence, etc. that is added to a speech or piece of writing, especially in order to give extra information. In writing, it is separated from the rest of the text using brackets, commas or dashes .
  1. Irregular forms are given in parentheses .
     不规则形式标注在括号内。

柯林斯词典

• 圆括号
  Parenthesesare a pair of curved marks that you put around words or numbers to indicate that they are additional, separate, or less important. (This sentence is in parentheses.)
• 插入语
  Aparenthesisis a remark that is made in the middle of a piece of speech or writing, and which gives a little more information about the subject being discussed.
• PHRASE 插一句
  You say 'in parenthesis' to indicate that you are about to add something before going back to the main topic.
  1. In parenthesis, I'd say that there were two aspects to writing you must never lose sight of.
     插一句，关于写作，我认为有两个方面你绝不能忽视。

英英释义

noun

• a message that departs from the main subject
  Synonym:digressionasideexcursusdivagation
• either of two punctuation marks (or) used to enclose textual material

双语例句

• I should like to mention another point here by way of parenthesis.
  在这里我想附带再提一下另外一点。
• For the sake of discussion, we have assigned a short name to each of the actions ( shown in parenthesis).
  为了讨论方便，我们为每种行为取了个简短的名字（见圆括号中的显示）。
• Write a right parenthesis.
  写入右括号。
• The Inbox button still features an unread count ( in parenthesis for the desktop display).
  Inbox按钮仍然提供了未读计数（在桌面显示中被放入括号中）。
• In this expression, we do not need a multiplication sign or parenthesis.
  这个表达式中，我们不需要乘号或括号。
• There is not a right parenthesis following the class or interface list.
  类或接口列表后没有右圆括号。
• The configuration parameters that control the sizes of these memory pools are shown in parenthesis.
  括号中显示了控制这些内存池大小的配置参数。
• This is the same length as the old style, but reads more cleanly and has fewer parenthesis.
  这与旧式写法长度一样，但可读性更好并且括号也少了。
• Element, too: the parenthesis indicate a group, but they are redundant in this case.
  元素：圆括号表示这是一个组，但在这里它们是多余的。
• There are only two columns in this bin, each represented within the parenthesis.
  这种容器中只有2个列，都在括号中表示。