either of twosymbolsput around a word, phrase, orsentencein apieceof writing to show that what is between them should beconsideredasseparatefrom themainpart:
In sometournaments, thefullbracket isdeterminedbefore the firstgame.有些锦标赛的总赛程表在第一场比赛前就已经确定好了。
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bracket
verb[T]
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bracketverb[T](USE SYMBOL)
to put brackets around words,phrases,numbers, etc.:
把…至于括号中
I've bracketed thepartsof thetextthat could beomitted.我已把文章可省略的部分用括号括起来了。
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bracketverb[T](PUT IN GROUP)
If you bracket two or more things orpeople, youconsiderthem to besimilarorconnectedto each other:
将…相提并论；把…归入同一类
He's often bracketedwiththeromanticpoetsof thisperiodalthoughthis does notreflecttherangeof hiswork.人们常常把他与这个时期的浪漫诗人相提并论，尽管这并不能反映出他的作品的涉猎范围。
either of apairofmarks[ ], or theinformationinside them, used in apieceof writing to show that what is inside thesemarksshould beconsideredasseparatefrom themainpart
bracketnoun(GROUP)
[C]
a setgroupwithfixedupperandlowerlimits:
Mostcollegestudentsare in the 18 to 22agebracket.
Her newjobputs her in ahigherincome/taxbracket.
bracketnoun(SUPPORT)
[C]
ametalorwoodpiece, usually L-shaped, whoseverticalpartisfastenedto awalland whosehorizontalpartis used tosupportsomething, such as ashelf
Percentages, in brackets, are of the total responding to each question.
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Verse citations should be in the original language followed by a prose translation in square brackets.
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The numbers in brackets represent the raw data expressed as a fraction, from which the percentages are calculated.
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Foot boundaries are indicated by square brackets, and headship by accent marks.
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Accuracies for ten-fold cross-validation in (b) are averages across the ten folds with standard deviations in brackets.
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Figures are averages across the ten folds with standard deviations in brackets.
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The angular brackets indicate the average over the entire fluid layer.
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Interestingly, atheism contributed towards cronyism, while the relationship between age brackets and responses were mixed, with no clear pattern.
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In that case we can replace all braces with list brackets.
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The general expectation is that respondents in higher income brackets should be less favorable for a strong role of religion in public affairs.
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Material in square brackets was added by the editors, including marks indicating the transition from one page to another in the original.
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The isolation year of each strain is indicated in the brackets.
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Until 1999, the allowances were inversely related to income, with four rates of benefit corresponding to an equal number of income brackets.
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Brackets and non-empty equation sets do not occur in user source-language programs, and brackets could be erased in a production implementation.
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What is copied is represented with angled brackets for ease of exposition.
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bottom bracket
At this point lugs are attached at thebottombracketand head tube.
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income bracket
The rural topincomebrackethas about 30% of the population after thirty years as against about 8% at present.
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metal bracket
These both attached to ametalbracketwhich ran around the perimeter of the engine.
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