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noun
a passage (as from a book or musical composition) selected, performed, or copied : extract
verb
transitive verb
to select (a passage) for quoting : extract
to take or publish extracts from (something, such as a book)
Verb and Noun Latin excerptus, past participle of excerpere, from ex- + carpere to gather, pluck — more at harvest
The first known use of excerpt was in the 15th century
expendverb
to pay out : spend
expend state funds
use up
expend energy
expectverb
to believe that something will occur and wait for it to happen expect her home soon
expect rain
suppose sense 3, think
who do you expect will win?
to consider reasonable, due, or necessary
expect an honest day's work
to consider obligated
expected you to pay your debts
expatiateverb
to speak or write in a full or lengthy manner
exorciseverb
to drive (as an evil spirit) off by calling upon some holy name or by spells
exonerateverb
to clear from a charge of wrongdoing or from blame : declare innocent
excuse1 of 2verb
to make apology for
excused myself for being late
to overlook or dismiss as of little importance
excuse a mistake
to release from doing something
excused the class from homework
to allow to leave
excused the sick student from class
to be an acceptable reason for : justify
nothing excuses bad manners
excuse2 of 2noun
the act of excusing
something offered as a reason for being excused
a note that explains an absence
something that excuses or is a reason for excusing
exculpateverb
to clear from a charge of fault or guilt
excreteverb
to separate and remove (waste produced by cellular activity) from the living body
urea is excreted by the kidneys in urine
exclaimverb
to cry out or speak suddenly or with strong feeling
exclaimed in delight
excerpt1 of 2verb
to select for quoting
to take excerpts from
excerpt2 of 2noun
a part taken from a longer work
read an excerpt from the play
1 The great mass of his translations, published and unpublished, and the smaller mass of his early hackwork, no doubt deserves judicious excerption.
2 She read an excerpt from the play.
3 I've read only excerpts of Moby-Dick, never the whole book.
4 Among the excerpts and Twitter feeds and author interviews … there was the actor Will Smith praising The Alchemist as one of his favorite books.
5 When his [Thomas Jefferson's] wife Martha died in 1782, he wrapped a lock of her hair with a scrap of paper containing an excerpt from the couple's favorite novel, Laurence Sterne's comic masterpiece, Tristram Shandy, and stashed the token in his desk.
6 … I also keep a pad by the side of my bed for writing down great thoughts at night without having to turn on the light. In the morning, these great thoughts sound like excerpts from the Dead Sea Scrolls.
7 The fiction that the magazine does publish is too often excerpted from novels or imminently forthcoming collections, making the magazine seem more a flack for publishers than a site of editorial strength and vision.
8 Read more about the case below, in an exclusive excerpt shared with PEOPLE.
9 Notably, for every garment shared through rental, 11 are effectively removed from the cycle of constant consumption, according to an excerpt from Sustainability: Science, Practice & Policy.
1 摘录
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3 摘要
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