paragraph

英 ['pærəgrɑːf] 美 ['pærəɡræf]

解释

※ 提供单词"paragraph"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。

paragraph 段落，分段符号

para-,在旁，在周围，-graph,写。即在旁边写的，写在旁边的，引申词义分段符号，段落。

paragraph (n.): late 15c., from Middle French paragraphe "division of text" (13c., Old French paragrafe), from Medieval Latin paragraphus "sign for start of a new section of discourse" (the sign looked something like a stylized letter -P-), from Greek paragraphos "short stroke in the margin marking a break in sense," also "a passage so marked," literally "anything written beside," from paragraphein "write by the side," from para- "beside" (see para- (1)) + graphein "to write" (see -graphy).

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1. Look at the information that precedes the paragraph in question.: 查看正在讨论的这段文字前面的信息。

2. The length of a paragraph depends on the information it conveys.: 段落的长度取决于它所传达的信息。

3. The second paragraph startled me even more than the first.: 第二段比第一段更让我吃惊。

4. The critic's review of the play was just a paragraph of bile.: 那位批评家对这部戏剧的评论不过是在发泄怒气。