| 单词 | ellipsis |
| 释义 | ellipsis (once / 9177 pages) n An ellipsis is punctuation that is used to show where words have been left out. The ellipsis is usually formed by three periods (four if the ellipsis comes at the end of a sentence). The word ellipsis comes to English via a Greek word, elleipein, meaning to fall short or leave out. The plural of the noun is ellipses. In the sentence, "'What the . . . !' she exclaimed.", the ellipsis replaces an expletive. The severity of the expletive is left to the reader's imagination. WORD FAMILYellipsis: ellipses USAGE EXAMPLES“Trump trails off. He uses ellipses and coded language. He lets his listeners fill in what they want.” The New Yorker(Nov 04, 2016) It all came down to one word, unless, followed by a pause so pregnant you could hear the silence painful giving birth to an ellipsis. Salon(Oct 10, 2016) “I stared at rippling ellipses on screens,” she writes. Slate(Oct 07, 2016) n omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences Syn|Hyper eclipsis deletion, omission any process whereby sounds or words are left out of spoken words or phrases |
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