| 单词 | topic |
| 释义 | topic /top"ik/, n. 1. a subject of conversation or discussion: to provide a topic for discussion. 2. the subject or theme of a discourse or of one of its parts. 3. Rhet. , Logic. a general field of considerations from which arguments can be drawn. 4. Also called theme. Ling. the part of a sentence that announces the item about which the rest of the sentence communicates information, often signaled by initial position in the sentence or by a grammatical marker. Cf. comment (def. 6). [1560-70; < L topica (pl.) < Gk (tà) topiká name of work by Aristotle (lit., (things) pertaining to commonplaces), equiv. to tóp(os) commonplace + -ika, neut. pl. of -ikos -IC; see TOPO-] Syn. 2. thesis, subject matter. See subject. |
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