Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular present tense brackets, present participle bracketing, past tense, past participle bracketed
1N-COUNT [usually n NOUN](收入、年龄、价格等的)范围,等级段 If you say that someone or something is in a particular bracket, you mean that they come within a particular range, for example a range of incomes, ages, or prices. (收入、年龄、价格等的)范围,等级段
...a 33% top tax rate on everyone in these high-income brackets.
2N-COUNT (固定在墙上的)托架,支架,角撑架Brackets are pieces of metal, wood, or plastic that are fastened to a wall in order to support something such as a shelf. (固定在墙上的)托架,支架,角撑架
4N-COUNT [usually plural, oft inNOUN]括号,括弧(美国英语中称作parentheses)Brackets are a pair of written marks that you place round a word, expression, or sentence in order to indicate that you are giving extra information. In British English, curved marks like these are also called brackets, but in American English, they are called parentheses . 括号,括弧(美国英语中称作parentheses)
The prices in brackets are special rates for the under 18s.
括号中的价格是年龄在18岁以下的消费者可以享受的特别优惠价。
My annotations appear in square brackets.
在方括号里有我给的注解。
5N-COUNT [usually plural](数学上的)括号Brackets are pair of marks that are placed around a series of symbols in a mathematical expression to indicate that those symbols function as one item within the expression. (数学上的)括号
1brackets (especially BrE) marks around extra information in writing括號➡ see also parenthesisADJECTIVE | VERB + BRACKETS | PREPOSITIONADJECTIVE➤angle, NAmE) , curly(also braces, esp. in NAmE) , round, square (just brackets in NAmE)尖括號;大括號;圓括號;方括號VERB + BRACKETS➤enclose sth in, give sth in, put sth in給⋯加上括號◇The prices are given in brackets.價格列在括號中。PREPOSITION➤in brackets, inside brackets, within brackets在括號內◇The words in brackets should be deleted.括號中的字應刪除。➤outside brackets在括號外◇The numbers outside the curly brackets are the sales figures.大括號外的數字是銷售量。bracket
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2range等級ADJECTIVE | PREPOSITIONADJECTIVE➤age, income, price, tax年齡組;收入等級;價格檔次;納稅等級▸➤high, higher, top, upper高檔次;較高檔次;最高檔次▸➤middle中間檔次▸➤low, lower低檔次;較低檔次PREPOSITION➤in a/the bracket, within a/the bracket在⋯檔次以內◇These machines are in the higher price bracket.這些機器屬於價錢比較高的檔次。➤outside a/the bracket在⋯檔次外◇people outside this age bracket不屬於該年齡層的人