clause

英 [klɔːz] 美 [klɔz]

解释

※ 提供单词"clause"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

clause 从句

词源同close,关闭。此处用于语法，即构成一个独立语法结构的句子。

clause: clause: [13] The etymological notion underlying clause is of ‘closing’ or ‘termination’. The word derives ultimately from Latin claudere (source of English close) and was originally applied either as a rhetorical term to the conclusion of a sentence, or as a legal term to the termination of a legal argument. Gradually, in both cases, the element of finality fell away, leaving the senses ‘short sentence’ and ‘section of a legal document’, which passed into English.

The past participle of Latin claudere, clausus, probably produced an unrecorded noun *clausa (known only in its diminutive form clausula), which passed into English via Old French clause.
=> clavier, close
clause (n.): c. 1200, "a sentence, a brief statement, a short passage," from Old French clause "stipulation" (in a legal document), 12c., from Medieval Latin clausa "conclusion," used in the sense of classical Latin clausula "the end, a closing, termination," also "end of a sentence or a legal argument," from clausa, fem. noun from past participle of claudere "to close, to shut, to conclude" (see close (v.)). Grammatical sense is from c. 1300. Legal meaning "distinct condition, stipulation, or proviso" is recorded from late 14c. in English. The sense of "ending" seems to have fallen from the word between Latin and French.

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1. The sentence consists of a main clause and a subordinate clause.: 这句中有一个主句和一个从句.

2. The third clause of the contract specifies steel sashes for the windows.: 合同的第三款指定使用钢窗.

4. They made a clause - by - clause rebuttal of the letter.: 他们对这封信逐句作了反驳.