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单词 meta-text
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meta-textn.

Brit. /ˈmɛtəˌtɛkst/, U.S. /ˈmɛdəˌtɛkst/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: meta- prefix, text n.1
Etymology: < meta- prefix + text n.1 Compare French méta-texte (1970 or earlier).
A text lying outside another text, esp. one describing or elucidating another.
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1956 C. E. Bazell in Litera 3 46 It might be objected that a dictionary is a meta-text rather than a normal text.
1975 MLN 90 731 The career of Don Quijote, translated out of a metatext written by that ‘flower of historians’.., Cide Hamete Benengeli [etc.].
1991 Paragraph July 126 The autobiographical story itself is framed by a prologue, a metatext which extracts from the object narration the moment of avowed finality.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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