ellipsis
noun
languagespecializeduk/iˈlɪp.sɪs/us/iˈlɪp.sɪs/pluralellipsesuk/iˈlɪp.siːz/us/iˈlɪp.siːz/ellipsisnoun(LANGUAGE)
[CorU]
asituationin which words areleftout of asentencebut thesentencecan still beunderstood:
（在句中省去一些词语而不影响句义理解的）省略Anexampleof ellipsis is "Whatpercentagewasleft?" "20."(= 20percent)省略的一个例子是：“还剩下百分之几？”“二十。”
Linguistic terms & linguistic style
- affricate
- allophone
- allophony
- anaphor
- anaphora
- chatty
- colloquial
- distributive
- double entendre
- downtoner
- emphatic
- entailment
- etymological
- oxymoron
- parallelism
- philological
- philology
- polysemy
- portmanteau word
- prescriptivism
ellipsisnoun(PRINTED MARK)
[C]
threedotsin aprintedtextthat show where one or more words have beenintentionallyleftout
省略号Punctuation
- abbreviated
- accent
- apostrophe
- at sign
- block capitals
- caron
- cedilla
- comma
- dash
- diacritical
- double prime
- question mark
- round brackets
- semicolon
- small cap
- small capitals
- solidus
- square brackets
- stroke
- unbracketed
Grammar
Ellipsis
Ellipsis happens when we leave out (in other words, when we don’t use) items which we would normally expect to use in a sentence if we followed the grammatical rules. The following examples show ellipsis. The items left out are in brackets [ ]:…Textual ellipsis
When we can easily understand everything in the sentence because of the surrounding text, we use textual ellipsis. For example, we know that certain verbs and adjectives can be followed by a that-clause, so if we see a clause without that after such verbs and adjectives, we assume that the writer or speaker wants us to understand the same meaning as a that-clause:…Situational ellipsis
When we do not need to mention someone or something because it is obvious from the immediate situation, we use situational ellipsis. Situational ellipsis often means we do not need to use the subject pronoun I, especially at the beginning of a clause. This is quite informal:…