1560s, "an ellipse," from Latin ellipsis, from Greek elleipsis "a falling short, defect, ellipse in grammar," noun of action from elleipein "to fall short, leave out," from en- "in" (see en- (1)) + leipein "to leave" (see relinquish). Grammatical sense in English first recorded 1610s. Related: Elipticity.
雙語例句
1. There is an ellipsis of " that " in that sentence.
那個句子省略了 " that ".
來自辭典例句
2. In this textbook we will tolerate a certain amount of ellipsis.
在這本書中我們允許一些簡化.
來自辭典例句
3. The sentence ` He is dead and I alive'contains an ellipsis, ie of the word ` am '.
在Heisdead andI alive 一句中有一處省略, 即am這個詞.
來自辭典例句
4. Truncates text that does not fit in the rectangle and adds ellipsis.
截斷無法放入矩形框的文本并添加省略號.
來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
5. States that a function type does not have ellipsis parameter.