1560s, "an ellipse," from Latin ellipsis, from Greek elleipsis "a falling short, defect, ellipse in grammar," noun of action from elleipein "to fall short, leave out," from en- "in" (see en- (1)) + leipein "to leave" (see relinquish). Grammatical sense in English first recorded 1610s. Related: Elipticity.
实用例句
1. There is an ellipsis of " that " in that sentence.
那个句子省略了 " that ".来自辞典例句
2. In this textbook we will tolerate a certain amount of ellipsis.
在这本书中我们允许一些简化.来自辞典例句
3. The sentence ` He is dead and I alive'contains an ellipsis, ie of the word ` am '.
在Heisdead andI alive 一句中有一处省略, 即am这个词.来自辞典例句
4. Truncates text that does not fit in the rectangle and adds ellipsis.
截断无法放入矩形框的文本并添加省略号.来自互联网
5. States that a function type does not have ellipsis parameter.
