(noun.) (grammar) an expression including a subject and predicate but not constituting a complete sentence.
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双语例句
Better than he thought,--except the last clause. 查尔斯·狄更斯.远大前程.
I added this saving clause, in the moment of rejecting four richly caparisoned coursers which I had had wild thoughts of harnessing. 查尔斯·狄更斯.远大前程.
The bill passed, however, with a clause that empty houses, barns, &c. 本杰明·富兰克林.富兰克林自传.
That, here he had a plan of action to recommend, with a conditional clause. 查尔斯·狄更斯.我们共同的朋友.
This was the clause--and no one who reads it can fail, I think, to agree with me that it meted out equal justice to all parties. 威尔基·柯林斯.白衣女人.
I maintain the clause to which you object, exactly as it stands. 威尔基·柯林斯.白衣女人.
The clause you drew in Colonel Herncastle's Will, informed them (didn't it? 威尔基·柯林斯.月亮宝石.
And we should let him have the benefit of this saving clause, and not rudely withdraw the veil behind which he has been pleased to conceal himself. 柏拉图.理想国.
But here came the conditional clause, and to this he entreated the special attention of his comrade, brother, and partner. 查尔斯·狄更斯.我们共同的朋友.
You maintain your note on the clause, then, to the letter? 威尔基·柯林斯.白衣女人.
I was acquainted with all this, you know,' said Mr. Bounderby, 'except the last clause, long ago. 查尔斯·狄更斯.艰难时事.
At the last clause of this announcement a senseless anger swelled the young man's breast. 伊迪丝·华顿.纯真年代.
His objections, in general, proved to be of the most trifling and technical kind, until he came to the clause relating to the twenty thousand pounds. 威尔基·柯林斯.白衣女人.
Once before--if you had your eyesight,' replied Miss Wren; the conditional clause in an under-tone. 查尔斯·狄更斯.我们共同的朋友.
This last clause as a softening compliment to Mr Venus. 查尔斯·狄更斯.我们共同的朋友.
The other clauses contained in that document were of a formal kind, and need not be recited here. 威尔基·柯林斯.白衣女人.
Sir James made little stoppages between his clauses, the words not coming easily. 乔治·艾略特.米德尔马契.
The latter clauses of these special instructions he addressed to the fire, as he gave it back the ashes he had taken from it, and replaced the shovel. 查尔斯·狄更斯.我们共同的朋友.
His will began and ended in three clauses, which he dictated from his bed, in perfect possession of his faculties. 威尔基·柯林斯.月亮宝石.
There were also secret clauses by which both France and Austria were later to acquire south German territory. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.