- 1摘錄、節選、選段
An excerpt is a short piece taken from something longer — a book, a poem, a speech, a film, a piece of music. You are not given the whole work; you are given a picked-out bit, often so you can taste it, study it, or quote it. Teachers read excerpts in class; news programmes play an excerpt from an interview; a concert programme may print a short excerpt from a symphony. The word has a slightly school-and-media feel: clear and respectable, not slang. It is also a verb: to excerpt something is to take that short piece out. Though actually, in everyday talk many people just say a clip, a passage, or a bit — excerpt sounds a little more formal, as if you are handling a published work with care.
From the word’s history
From Latin excerptus, past participle of excerpo 'to pick out', from ex 'out' + carpo 'to pick, pluck'.
源自拉丁文 excerpo「挑出」，由 ex「出」加 carpo「摘」組成。
組成From Latin excerptus, the past form of excerpere, “to pick out”: ex (“out”) + carpere (“to pick, pluck”).
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
excerptnoun/ˈɛɡzɜː(p)t/
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A clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work such as a news article, a film, or a literary composition.
excerptverb/ˈɛɡzɜː(p)t/
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To select or copy sample material (excerpts) from a work.
- out of which we have excerpted the following remarkable particulars
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。