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bracket

noun
🔊/ˈbrækɪt/
🔊/ˈbrækɪt/
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  1. (also round bracket)
     (both British English)
    (also parenthesis North American English or formal)
    [usually plural] either of a pair of marks, (  ), placed around extra information in a piece of writing or part of a problem in mathematics括号
    • Publication dates are given in brackets after each title.出版日期括于书名后面。🔊🔊
    • Add the numbers in brackets first.先把括号里的数字加起来。🔊🔊
    see also angle bracket compare brace
    Extra Examples
    • The prices are given in brackets.价格列在括号中。
    • The words in brackets should be deleted.括号中的字应删除。
    • The numbers outside the curly brackets (= ⎨⎬) are the sales figures.大括号外的数字是销售量。
    Topics Languagec1, Maths and measurementc1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • angle
    • curly
    • round
    • …
    verb + brackets
    • enclose something in
    • give something in
    • put something in
    • …
    preposition
    • in brackets
    • inside brackets
    • within brackets
    • …
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  2. (North American English)
    (especially British English square bracket)
    [usually plural] either of a pair of marks, [  ], placed at the beginning and end of extra information in a text, especially comments made by an editor方括号Topics Languagec1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • angle
    • curly
    • round
    • …
    verb + brackets
    • enclose something in
    • give something in
    • put something in
    • …
    preposition
    • in brackets
    • inside brackets
    • within brackets
    • …
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  3. price, age, income, etc. bracket prices, etc. within a particular range（价格、年龄、收入等的）组级，等级
    • People in the lower income brackets will not be able to afford this.低收入阶层的人将无法负担得起。
    • Most of the houses are out of our price bracket.大多数房子都超出我们的价格范围。🔊🔊
    • the 30–34 age bracket (= people aged between 30 and 34)30–34 岁的年龄组
    Extra Examples
    • This model remains firmly in the upper price bracket.这种型号的价格仍然居高不下。
    • She found that she fell into a higher tax bracket.她发现自己陷入了更高的税级。
    • Most respondents were in the 45–60 age bracket.大多数参与调查的人年龄在45至60岁之间。
    • His income was in a fairly low earnings bracket.他的收入处于相当低的收入水平。
    • people outside this age bracket不属于该年龄层的人
    • These machines are in the higher price bracket.这些机器属于价钱比较高的档次。
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • age
    • income
    • price
    • …
    preposition
    • in a/​the bracket
    • within a/​the bracket
    • outside a/​the bracket
    • …
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  4. a piece of wood, metal or plastic fixed to the wall to support a shelf, lamp, etc.（固定在墙上的）托架，支架
    • fixed to the wall on a bracket固定在墙上的支架上
    5. Word Originlate 16th cent.: from French braguette or Spanish bragueta ‘codpiece, bracket, corbel’, from Provençal braga, from Latin braca, (plural) bracae ‘breeches’.

bracket

verb
🔊/ˈbrækɪt/
🔊/ˈbrækɪt/
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they bracket
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he / she / it brackets
🔊/ˈbrækɪts/
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past simple bracketed
🔊/ˈbrækɪtɪd/
🔊/ˈbrækɪtɪd/
past participle bracketed
🔊/ˈbrækɪtɪd/
🔊/ˈbrækɪtɪd/
-ing form bracketing
🔊/ˈbrækɪtɪŋ/
🔊/ˈbrækɪtɪŋ/
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  1. bracket something to put words, information, etc. between brackets用括弧括上
  2. bracket A and B (together) | bracket A (together) with B [often passive] to consider people or things to be similar or connected in some way把…等同考虑；把…相提并论
    • It is unfair to bracket together those who cannot work with those who will not.把不能工作的人和不愿工作的人等同看待是不公平的。🔊🔊
    • He is sometimes wrongly bracketed with the ‘new wave’ film directors.有时他会被错误地与“新浪潮”电影导演放在一起。
    • The two writers are often bracketed together by critics.评论界经常将这两位作家相提并论。
    3. Word Originlate 16th cent.: from French braguette or Spanish bragueta ‘codpiece, bracket, corbel’, from Provençal braga, from Latin braca, (plural) bracae ‘breeches’.