1540s, "words, clauses, etc. inserted into a sentence," from Middle French parenthèse (15c.), from Late Latin parenthesis "addition of a letter to a syllable in a word," from Greek parenthesis, literally "a putting in beside," from parentithenai "put in beside," from para- "beside" (see para- (1)) + en- "in" + tithenai "put, place" (see theme). Sense extension by 1715 from the inserted words to the curved brackets that indicate the words inserted.
A wooden parenthesis; the pillory. An iron parenthesis; a prison. ["Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit and Pickpocket Eloquence," London, 1811]
实用例句
1. In parenthesis, I'd say that there were two aspects to writing you must never lose sight of.
插一句，关于写作，我认为有两个方面你绝不能忽视。
来自柯林斯例句
2. I should like to mention another point here by way of parenthesis.
在这里我想附带再提一下另外一点.
来自辞典例句
3. I should like to mention this by way of parenthesis.
我想附带地提一提这个问题.
来自辞典例句
4. Items encapsulated in parenthesis are evaluated first and have the highest precedence.
先给包含在括号中的项目赋值,它拥有最高的优先权.
来自互联网
5. A common syntax error is to omit a parenthesis.
