bracket
n
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(a) wooden or metal angle-shaped support fixed to or built into a wall to hold a shelf, etc 托架(木制或金屬制, 固定在墻上以托住擱板等).
(b) support on a wall for a lamp 墻壁上的燈架.
2 (usu pl 通常作復數) (in printing or writing) any one of the marks used in pairs for enclosing words, figures, etc to separate them from what precedes or follows, eg () (round brackets or parentheses), []
(square brackets), <> (angle brackets), {} (braces) (印刷或書寫中)括號(如圓括號()、方括號 [] 、尖括號<>、大括號 {} 任何一對的一邊)
Put your name in brackets at the top of each page. 把你的名字填在每頁上端的括號內. =>App 3 見附錄3.
3 group or category within specified limits (有一定上下限的)分類, 檔次
be in the lower/higher income bracket 屬於低[高]收入等級
the 20-30 age bracket, ie those people between the ages of 20 and 30 20-30歲的年齡組. bracket, v
1 [Tn] support (sth) with a bracket (用托架)支撐(某物).
2 [Tn] (in printing or writing) enclose (words, figures, etc) in brackets (bracket 2) (印刷或書寫中)把(詞語、數字等)置於括號中.
3 [Tn, Tn.pr, Tn.p]
~ A and B (together); ~ A with B group things or people in the same category (to suggest that they are similar, equal or connected in some way) 將事物或人置於同一范疇(以示相似、相同或相關)
It's wrong to bracket him with the extremists in his party his views are very moderate. 把他跟他們黨內的極端分子等同看待是不對的--他的觀點其實很溫和.