llipsis
n
(pl -pses ) [C, U]
(grammar) (instance of) leaving out a word or words from (the grammatical structure of) a sentence when the meaning can be understood without it/them 省略(指语法结构中的词语省略而不影响原意者)
The sentence `He is dead and I alive' contains an ellipsis, ie of the word `am'. 在He is dead and I alive一句中有一处省略, 即am这个词. =>App 3 见附录3.
I'm sorry, Mathilde. Have times been hard for you?
玛蒂尔德,我真替你难过。这些年来境况不太好吧?
On our way home that night I looked down and saw that the necklace was not around my neck any more. I told Pierre. We rushed back to the palace and looked for it.We asked everyone there if they had found a necklace, but without luck. We couldn't find it;