1620s, from Medieval Latin parentheticus from Greek parenthetos "put in beside," verbal adjective from parentithenai; see parenthesis) + -al (1). Related: Parenthetically.
雙語例句
1. Fox was making a long parenthetical remark about his travels on the border of the country.
福克斯正在插入一大段題外話，講他在該國邊境游歷的故事。
來自柯林斯例句
2. The second parenthetical subexpression saves the domain address part of the address.
第二個括號子表達式保存地址的域地址部分.
來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
3. Yes, I had a parenthetical aside about Clinton - era growth being faster than most people realize. So?
是的, 中間我插了一句道克林頓時期的增長率比許多人想象得要快. 怎么了?
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4. The third parenthetical subexpression saves a Web site port number, if one is specified.