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excerpt

verb
🔊/ekˈsɜːpt/
🔊/ekˈsɜːrpt/
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they excerpt
🔊/ekˈsɜːpt/
🔊/ekˈsɜːrpt/
he / she / it excerpts
🔊/ekˈsɜːpts/
🔊/ekˈsɜːrpts/
past simple excerpted
🔊/ekˈsɜːptɪd/
🔊/ekˈsɜːrptɪd/
past participle excerpted
🔊/ekˈsɜːptɪd/
🔊/ekˈsɜːrptɪd/
-ing form excerpting
🔊/ekˈsɜːptɪŋ/
🔊/ekˈsɜːrptɪŋ/
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  1. excerpt something (from something) to take a short piece of writing, music, film, etc. from a longer whole摘录；节选；（音乐、电影的）片段
    • The document was excerpted from an unidentified FBI file.此文件摘自来源不明的联邦调查局档案。🔊🔊

excerpt

noun
🔊/ˈeksɜːpt/
🔊/ˈeksɜːrpt/
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  1. excerpt (from something) a short piece of writing, music, film, etc. taken from a longer whole摘录；节选；（音乐、电影的）片段
    • Read the following excerpt from one of Milton’s poems.阅读米尔顿的一首诗的以下摘录。
    • They only played a short excerpt.他们只播放了一段简短的摘录。
    Extra Examples
    • The article included excerpts from various interviews.这篇文章含有来自不同采访的片段。
    • The paper published some short excerpts from Mandela's memoirs.该报登出了曼德拉回忆录的一些片段。
    • The programme included excerpts from Verdi's operas.这个节目包含威尔地歌剧的片段。
    • This DVD contains a 10-minute excerpt from the stage show.这张数字影碟里有这一舞台秀 10 分钟的片段。
    • an exclusive excerpt from his new book他的新书的一个独家摘录
    • The show features excerpts from classic jazz recordings.这场演出的特色是会呈现一些经典爵士乐唱片的作品选段。
    Topics Literature and writingb1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • brief
    • little
    • short
    • …
    verb + excerpt
    • contain
    • feature
    • include
    • …
    preposition
    • excerpt from
    • excerpt of
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    Word Originmid 16th cent. (as a verb): from Latin excerpt- ‘plucked out’, from the verb excerpere, from ex- ‘out of’ + carpere ‘to pluck’.