| 单词 | parenthetic |
| 例句 | Similar in principle to the enclosing of parenthetic expressions between commas is the setting off by commas of phrases or dependent clauses preceding or following the main clause of a sentence. A Foreword to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition 2011-08-20T02:00:13.567Z Miss Bates, indeed, is verbose, roundabout, and parenthetic; but the widow never deviates into coherence. Dickens English Men of Letters 2011-07-13T02:00:19.017Z While Act V., 1 has some sentences cast in the parenthetic form, the expressions used are less lucid than we expect from Massinger. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z The fact that I still loved my husband I placed as a parenthetic consideration, in my plans. My Actor-Husband A true story of American stage life 2011-01-03T03:01:07.697Z Two short sentences are better than one long one containing a parenthetic expression. News Writing The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories This rule is difficult to apply; it is frequently hard to decide whether a single word, such as however, or a brief phrase, is or is not parenthetic. A Foreword to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition 2011-08-20T02:00:13.567Z The most admirable discourses from the merely literary point of view on taste, Shakespeare, and the musical glasses, with some parenthetic reference to the matter in hand, are not criticism. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 In style The Duke of Milan is marked by several passages of fine poetry and a comparative absence of the parenthetic construction. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z This again for a moment hushed her, and they were both too grave now for parenthetic pity. The Wings of the Dove, Volume II Parenthetic Expressions.—The use of long parenthetic expressions within a sentence is also a frequent cause of lack of clearness. News Writing The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories If a parenthetic expression is preceded by a conjunction, place the first comma before the conjunction, not after it. A Foreword to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition 2011-08-20T02:00:13.567Z Returning from this parenthetic remark, we are concerned here chiefly to remember that, as said at the outset, there existed thirty years ago, no tenable theory about the genesis of living things. Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I The position of an adverb is, in respect to matters of syntax, pre-eminently parenthetic; i.e., it may be omitted without injuring the construction. A Handbook of the English Language She had come back to another, which was one of her own; her own were so closely connected that Densher's were at best but parenthetic. The Wings of the Dove, Volume II Two short terse sentences are clearer—hence far more effective—than one long one containing a doubtfully clear parenthetic phrase or clause. News Writing The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories Nether Stowey is completely identified by its name; the statement about Coleridge is therefore supplementary and parenthetic. A Foreword to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition 2011-08-20T02:00:13.567Z Thus Sally in a parenthetic voice— "... and that she really isn't such a very great humbug after all!" Somehow Good A dash is used alone or with a comma to inclose a phrase or clause which is parenthetic or explanatory. English: Composition and Literature In it the second Rhyming Doublet is divided by a kind of parenthetic Rhythmic Solitaire. Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise: With a Study But the whole dispute on Poetic Diction is too deep and too broad for an occasional or parenthetic notice. The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 Bounce paused, in the midst of his mental energy, to take a parenthetic whiff. The Wild Man of the West A Tale of the Rocky Mountains Both of them are frankly parenthetic; both parentheses are superfluous; neither has any incidental beauty to redeem it; and, above all, we may be sure that Pippa did not think in parentheses. Browning's Heroines However when phrases and clauses are quite parenthetic, they are separated from the remainder of the sentence by parentheses, or by commas and dashes. English: Composition and Literature Unluckily I am ignorant of the very rudiments of the matter, so his parenthetic enthusiasms were lost upon me. Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 3 (of 3) Essay 2: The Death of Mr Mill - Essay 3: Mr Mill's Autobiography The little parenthetic duo at the eighth bar breaks the roll of the song for one breath, and the concord of voices closes in again like a diapason. The Story of the Hymns and Tunes It is characteristic of its author in its reality of feeling, in its seeking an unusual point of view, in its parenthetic and allusive style, and its occasional high felicity of expression. Browning's Shorter Poems The style is somewhat too pompous, being more that of the orator than of the historian, and containing long and parenthetic periods. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction The smooth gliding of the voice in parenthetic clauses, etc. 1001 Questions and Answers on Orthography and Reading He injured the melody also by casting into the middle of it, like stones into a clear water, rough parenthetic sounds to suit his parenthetic phrases. The Poetry Of Robert Browning And then, feeling that he had rather overshot the mark, he added in a parenthetic murmur, "Excellent Christian people they were, no doubt!" Principal Cairns "Upon my word, she's playing her hand rather too openly," Miss Wirt thought; but this observation is merely parenthetic, and was not heard through the crevice of the door at which the governess uttered it. Vanity Fair These, however, were but parenthetic memories, and the turn taken by his affair on the whole was positively that if his nerves were on the stretch it was because he missed violence. The Ambassadors This is not insincerity; it is the metaphysical, analytical, and parenthetic mind in action. Poems of Coleridge He had another parenthetic shoot of impatience with her dreadful articulateness; had Imogen always talked so much like the heroine of a novel with a purpose? A Fountain Sealed Deronda took in these details by parenthetic glances while he met Jacob's pressing solicitude about the knife. Daniel Deronda This present chapter, it may seem, promises something of the same episodical or parenthetic character. Autobiographical Sketches How was he to resist this pretty woman, with her captivating manners, her well-timed tears, her parenthetic sighs? Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 That Clemens appreciated his own tendencies is shown by the parenthetic line with which he opens his letter on the subject to Mr. Rogers. Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 4 (1886-1900) This parenthetic excitement diverted for a few minutes the eyes of Bob and Anne from the trumpet-major; and when the play proceeded, and they looked back to his corner, he was gone. The Trumpet-Major Norbert Wiener's prophetic warning that we will become slaves of intelligent contraptions that take over intellectual faculties deserves more than a parenthetic reminder. The Civilization of Illiteracy He likes these parenthetic touches, as in his description of Donne, ‘always preaching to himself, like an angel from a cloud,—but in none.’ Introduction to the Compleat Angler The trumpet-major sounded from far down his throat what he considered to be E flat, with a parenthetic sense of luxury unquenchable even by his present distraction. The Trumpet-Major |
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