1620s, from Medieval Latin parentheticus from Greek parenthetos "put in beside," verbal adjective from parentithenai; see parenthesis) + -al (1). Related: Parenthetically.
双语例句
1. Fox was making a long parenthetical remark about his travels on the border of the country.
福克斯正在插入一大段题外话，讲他在该国边境游历的故事。
来自柯林斯例句
2. The second parenthetical subexpression saves the domain address part of the address.
第二个括号子表达式保存地址的域地址部分.
来自互联网
3. Yes, I had a parenthetical aside about Clinton - era growth being faster than most people realize. So?
是的, 中间我插了一句道克林顿时期的增长率比许多人想象得要快. 怎么了?
来自互联网
4. The third parenthetical subexpression saves a Web site port number, if one is specified.
