Bracket Bracketed People Pair ˈbrækɪt N Count 可数名词 Wall
The word "bracket" can be used as a noun to mean a range or category of income, age, or price, a piece of material fixed to a wall to support something, or a type of punctuation used in writing or mathematics. As a verb, "bracket" means to group or consider things as similar.
[N-COUNT 可数名词](收入、年龄、价格等的)范围,等级段 If you say that someone or something is in a particular bracket, you mean that they come within a particular range, for example a range of incomes, ages, or prices.
[usu n N]
...a 33% top tax rate on everyone in these high-income brackets...
对所有这些高收入人群征收的33%的最高税率
Do you fall outside that age bracket?
你不属于那个年龄段吗?
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[N-COUNT 可数名词](固定在墙上的)托架,支架,角撑架Brackets are pieces of metal, wood, or plastic that are fastened to a wall in order to support something such as a shelf.
Fix the beam with the brackets and screws.
把横梁用托架和螺丝固定。
...adjustable wall brackets.
可调节的壁架
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[VERB 动词]把…归为一类;把…相提并论 If two or more people or things are bracketed together, they are considered to be similar or related in some way.
[pl-n be V-ed together]
[be V-ed with n]
The Magi, Bramins, and Druids were bracketed together as men of wisdom...
东方三博士、婆罗门和德鲁伊特都被视为富有智慧的人。
Austrian wine styles are often bracketed with those of northern Germany.
人们往往把奥地利葡萄酒的风味与德国北部葡萄酒的风味相提并论。
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[N-COUNT 可数名词]括号,括弧(美国英语中称作parentheses)Brackets are a pair of written marks that you place round a word, expression, or sentence in order to indicate that you are giving extra information. In British English, curved marks like these are also called brackets, but in American English, they are called parentheses .
[usu pl]
The prices in brackets are special rates for the under 18s...
括号中的价格是年龄在18岁以下的消费者可以享受的特别优惠价。
My annotations appear in square brackets.
在方括号里有我给的注解。
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[N-COUNT 可数名词](数学上的)括号Brackets are pair of marks that are placed around a series of symbols in a mathematical expression to indicate that those symbols function as one item within the expression.
[usu pl]
Oxford
bracket/ˈbrækɪt; NAmEˈbrækɪt/
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bracketbracketsbracketedbracketingnoun1(alsoˈround bracket)( both BrE) (alsopar·en·thesisNAmEorformal)[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 bracketsafter 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
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n. (5 )2( NAmE) (BrEˌsquare ˈbracket)[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3price, age, income, etc. ~prices, etc. within a particular range (价格、年龄、收入等的)组级,等级◆people in the lower income bracket低收入等级的人们◆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 4a 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verb1bracketsth to put words, information, etc. between brackets 用括弧括上2bracketA and B (together) |bracketA (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。bracket/ˈbrækɪt; NAmEˈbrækɪt/
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bracketbrack‧et1 /ˈbrækɪt/ ●●○ noun [countable]
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1 (also round bracket) [usually plural] British English one of the pair of signs ( ) put around words to show extra informationSYN parenthesis American Englishin brackets Last year’s sales figures are given in brackets. →
angle brackets
, square bracket
, punctuation mark
2income/tax/age etc bracket a particular income, tax etc range: the highest tax bracket families in lower income brackets3a piece of metal, wood, or plastic, often in the shape of the letter L, fixed to a wall to support something such as a shelf
bracket1 noun
bracket2 verb
bracketbracket2 verb [transitive]
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1to consider two or more people or things as being similar or the samebe bracketed together Women and minors were bracketed together for the legislation.be bracketed with somebody/something Arizona has been bracketed with Iowa in the tournament.2to put brackets around a written word, piece of information etc: Debit amounts are bracketed.GRAMMARBracket is usually passive.
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bracket
[ˈbrækɪt]bracketed, bracketing, brackets
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支架(65%),括号(21%),支撑(9%),档次(4%),放在括号内(1%)
n.支架;括号;墙上凸出的托架
vt.括在一起;把…归入同一类;排除
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