2in parenthesisBritish EnglishBrE, in parentheses American English if you say something in parenthesis, you say it while you are talking about something else in order to addinformation or explain something 作为插入语
In parenthesis, I should add that the results have not yet been proven.
parenthesis• How can you escape all this without some haversack of a parenthesis about the lady's character?• We must begin with a parenthesis.• Some of that evidence, it might be said in parenthesis, appears to be adverse to the appellants.• She saw and registered all this in parenthesis.• In parenthesis I should say that I am passing quickly over the significance of these four levels of understanding.• The single amino acid change from the ratsequence is indicated in the parenthesis.
Originparenthesis
(1500-1600)Late LatinGreek, from parentithenai“to put in”
1parentheses (especially NAmE) marks around extra information in writing括號➡ see also bracketVERB + PARENTHESES | PREPOSITIONVERB + PARENTHESES➤enclose sth in parentheses, give sth in parentheses, put sth in parentheses將⋯置於括號內◇The prices are given in parentheses.價格在括號內。PREPOSITION➤in parentheses, inside parentheses, within parentheses括號內◇The words in parentheses should be deleted.括號內的字應該刪掉。➤outside parentheses括號外◇The numbers outside the parentheses are the sales figures.括號外的數字是銷售數字。parenthesis
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2extra information in a sentence, etc.插話;附加成分ADJECTIVE | PREPOSITIONADJECTIVE➤long長長的插話◇After a long parenthesis, she returned to the matter in hand.插了很長一段話後,她重新做手頭的事。PREPOSITION➤in parenthesis附帶◇I add, in parenthesis, that I doubt whether such a place exists.我補充一句,我懷疑這樣一個地方是否存在。