| 单词 | bracket |
| 释义 | bracket (brækɪt ) Word forms: brackets , bracketing , bracketed 1. countable noun [usually noun NOUN] If you say that someone or something is in a particular bracket, you mean that they come within a particular range, for example a range of incomes, ages, or prices. ...a 33% top tax rate on everyone in these high-income brackets. Do you fall outside that age bracket? Synonyms: grouping, limits, group, list 2. countable noun Brackets are pieces of metal, wood, or plastic that are fastened to a wall in order to support something such as a shelf. Fix the beam with the brackets and screws. ...adjustable wall brackets. Synonyms: support, stay, post, prop 3. verb If two or more people or things are bracketed together, they are considered to be similar or related in some way. Small businesses are being bracketed together as high risk, regardless of their business plans and previous histories. [be V-ed with together] Austrian wine styles are often bracketed with those of northern Germany. [be VERB-ed + with] Synonyms: group, rank, arrange, grade 4. countable noun [usually plural, oft in NOUN] B2 Brackets are a pair of written marks that you place round a word, expression, or sentence in order to indicate that you are giving extra information. In British English, curved marks like these are also called brackets, but in American English, they are called parenthesis. The prices in brackets are special rates for the under 18s. My annotations appear in square brackets. 5. countable noun [usually plural] Brackets are a pair of marks that are placed around a series of symbols in a mathematical expression to indicate that those symbols function as one item within the expression. Collocations: lower bracket Thus, people could defer their tax bill until they are in a lower bracket, perhaps in retirement. Times, Sunday Times You would still be liable for higher-rate tax unless you had moved into a lower bracket. Times, Sunday Times You could draw income of 5% while you are still a higher-rate taxpayer and then cash in the bond when you drop into a lower bracket, perhaps at retirement. Times, Sunday Times Pay moved to a lower bracket in six cases. Times, Sunday Times Once participants qualify in a bracket, they can no longer go to a lower bracket and compete in that bracket. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A taxpayer in the top bracket paying $1,000 of mortgage interest, for example, would see a tax break worth $350 reduced to $280. Christianity Today Unless, of course, you belong in that tiny top bracket for which it remains no object. Times, Sunday Times The top bracket of the tax rate fell from 70 percent to 30 percent, around which it’s hovered ever since. Smithsonian Mag Other sides perhaps lack wrist-spinners in the top bracket. Times, Sunday Times The top bracket of sales tax will rise to 23 per cent. The Sun Translations: Chinese: 范围收入、年龄、价格等的, 相提并论收入、年龄、价格等的 Japanese: 階層, 同類に扱う |
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