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单词 id est
释义 id est
two Latin words, meaning ‘that is’, used in works written in Latin to introduce an explanation of a word or phrase = ‘that is to say’; retained in English in the same use, now usually in the abbreviated form i.e. (formerly often i.): see Abbreviations, under I the letter.
1598Florio, Gallina bagnata, a wet hen, id est, a milke⁓sop.1663Butler Hud. i. i. 850 Mira de lente, as 'tis i'th Adage, Id est, to make a Leek a Cabbage.1821Byron Juan iv. xciii, ‘Arcades ambo’, id est—blackguards both.
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