| 单词 | pregnant construction |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspregnant construction pregnant construction n. Grammar and Rhetoric a construction in which more is implied than is expressed by the words. ΚΠ 1848 N. Amer. Rev. Oct. 502 He uses every form of brief and pregnant construction which the language admits. 1914 Classical Q. 8 107 De culmine rerum petit is a ‘pregnant’ construction, perfectly intelligible. 1980 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 100 79/1 A pregnant construction is in fact probably to be assumed: ‘a subsistence field (that supplies) the tax assessed on the family’. < as lemmas |
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