英语词汇parentheses的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

parentheses. First recorded in 1568, parenthesis comes from a similar Latin word meaning the same. A parenthesis is a word, phrase, or clause inserted in a sentence that is grammati- cally complete without the insertion. The device goes back to at least the 16th century, when the parentheses, or “upright curves” themselves (the marks enclosing these words), were sometimes called “halfe circles” and “round brackets.” Paren- thetical remarks, however, can be made between dashes and commas as well as within parentheses. Mark Twain had the last word on parentheses. “Parentheses in literature and dentistry are in bad taste,” he wrote, comparing parenthetical expres- sions “to dentists who grab a tooth and launch into a tedious anecdote before giving the painful jerk.”

词汇	parentheses
词源	parentheses. First recorded in 1568, parenthesis comes from a similar Latin word meaning the same. A parenthesis is a word, phrase, or clause inserted in a sentence that is grammati- cally complete without the insertion. The device goes back to at least the 16th century, when the parentheses, or “upright curves” themselves (the marks enclosing these words), were sometimes called “halfe circles” and “round brackets.” Paren- thetical remarks, however, can be made between dashes and commas as well as within parentheses. Mark Twain had the last word on parentheses. “Parentheses in literature and dentistry are in bad taste,” he wrote, comparing parenthetical expres- sions “to dentists who grab a tooth and launch into a tedious anecdote before giving the painful jerk.”
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