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单词 non-restrictive
释义 non-reˈstrictive, a.
[non- 3.]
Not restrictive; spec. in Gram., denoting a word, phrase, or clause that does not restrict or limit the meaning of the word or words to which it is added.
1924O. Jespersen Philos. of Gram. viii. 111 Next we come to non-restrictive adjuncts as in my dear little Ann!1927Mod. Eng. Gram. III. iv. 82 Restrictive or defining clauses,..give a necessary determination to the antecedent, and thereby make it more precise... Non-restrictive or loose clauses..might be discarded without serious injury to the precise understanding of the sentence as a whole.1953J. S. Huxley Evolution in Action vi. 142 What is difficult is to discover just how any one step is effected, still more to distinguish desirable from undesirable change, and restrictive from non-restrictive improvement.1966G. N. Leech Eng. in Advertising xiv. 132 Proper nouns do occasionally combine with modifiers of non-restrictive force: ‘fair Helen’..; ‘beautiful Britain’.1971Archivum Linguisticum II. 14 To separate non-restrictive progressive relative clauses from the preceding clause.
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