cleft
中文来自 ECDICT
- n.
- 裂缝，裂口
- adj.
- 劈开的
- cleave的过去式和过去分词
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构词拆分
演变路径（由近及远）
原始词根
原始印欧语 *glewbʰ-
词源说明
From Middle English clifte, from Old English ġeclyft, from Proto-West Germanic *klufti, from Proto-Germanic *kluftiz, equivalent to cleave + -t (“-th”). Compare Dutch klucht (“coarse comedy”), Swedish klyft (“cave, den”), German Kluft. See cleave.
The modern form with /ɛ/ is by association with Etymology 2 (the past form of cleave).
释义（英文）
名词 Noun
动词 Verb
- (linguistics) To syntactically separate a prominent constituent from the rest of the clause that concerns it, such as threat in "The threat which I saw but which he didn't see, was his downfall."
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释义（英文）
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