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单词 quote, unquote
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quote, unquote
c. intransitive (imperative). Used in actual and reported speech to represent the beginning of a passage that one is quoting or purporting to quote; frequently in quote..unquote (also quote-unquote, quote, unquote, etc.) (representing opening and closing quotation marks around the quoted word or phrase).In quot. 1910 transitive with the person quoted as object; cf. sense 2a.
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1910 Logansport (Indiana) Jrnl. 6 Dec. 1/1 Atwater..had presented a lengthy statement which (quote Nelson) it would be imposing upon your honorable body to copy in full (unquote Nelson).
1918 Bridgeport (Connecticut) Telegram 11 Dec. 2/3 Title of picture to be quote Watchful Waiting unquote.
1921 Chicago Tribune 6 July 19 I knew her when she was a quote bear unquote period.
1940 K. Fearing Coll. Poems 67 That miracle thing, the thing that can't be so, quote, unquote, but just the same it's true.
1950 ‘S. Ransome’ Deadly Miss Ashley xvii. 198 She says, quote, ‘What girl wouldn't?’ unquote.
1992 New Scientist 19 Sept. 14/2 The most serious land reclamation problems in Wales are lands which have already been, quote, reclaimed.
2001 T. Medina & L. R. Rivera Bum Rush 49 Occupation: jazz musician. Has clippings in pocket as quote-unquote proof.
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