late 15c., from Middle French paragraphe "division of text" (13c., Old French paragrafe), from Medieval Latin paragraphus "sign for start of a new section of discourse" (the sign looked something like a stylized letter -P-), from Greek paragraphos "short stroke in the margin marking a break in sense," also "a passage so marked," literally "anything written beside," from paragraphein "write by the side," from para- "beside" (see para- (1)) + graphein "to write" (see -graphy).
实用例句
1. Look at the information that precedes the paragraph in question.
查看正在讨论的这段文字前面的信息。来自柯林斯例句
2. The length of a paragraph depends on the information it conveys.
段落的长度取决于它所传达的信息。来自柯林斯例句
3. The second paragraph startled me even more than the first.
第二段比第一段更让我吃惊。来自柯林斯例句
4. The critic's review of the play was just a paragraph of bile.
那位批评家对这部戏剧的评论不过是在发泄怒气。来自《权威词典》
5. The first line of each paragraph should be indented.
