| 单词 | elision |
| 释义 | elision (once / 30306 pages) n Leaving something out is an elision. If the movie version of your favorite book leaves out the most exciting plot line, it's because the director made an elision. Elision has its roots in the Latin word elidere, which means "to crush out." A government censor who blacks out the names of people or places in a document is making an elision, and so is an editor who removes passages from an article to make it shorter or clearer. The editor probably thinks of the elision as a clean, businesslike cut, but the writer might indeed feel crushed. WORD FAMILYelision: elisions+/elide: elided, elides, eliding, elision USAGE EXAMPLESThere is another sort of elision happening, one that’s more disturbing than middle-class Americans’ cosplaying working-class traditions from the Continent. New York Times(Jul 12, 2016) The company says the event exists “to share details about the PlayStation business,” which is the sort of generic marketing elision that breeds rumors. Time(Sep 02, 2016) Given this cultural elision, the inconclusive DNA and physical dispersal, firm membership criteria are elusive. Economist(Aug 24, 2016) 1n a deliberate act of omission Syn|Hyper exception, exclusion omission neglecting to do something; leaving out or passing over something 2n omission of a sound between two words (usually a vowel and the end of one word or the beginning of the next) Hyper deletion, omission any process whereby sounds or words are left out of spoken words or phrases |
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