quotation
quotation 英 [kwəʊˈteɪʃn] 美 [kwoʊˈteɪʃn]
n. 引语，引文，引证，引述；
名词复数:quotations
- A quotation is the exact words of someone else. When you like what someone said, put their quotation in your writing.
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- n. 引语，引文，引证，引述；
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1. The book began with a quotation from Goethe.
这本书一开头引用了歌德的隽语。
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2. a dictionary of quotations
引语词典
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3. The writer illustrates his point by quotation from a number of sources.
作者旁征博引以证明自己的观点。
- quotation (n.) mid-15c., "numbering," later (1530s) "marginal notation," noun of action from quote (v.) or else from Medieval Latin quotationem (nominative quotatio), noun of action from past participle stem of quotare "to number." Meaning "an act of quoting" is from 1640s; that of "passage quoted" is from 1680s. Quotation marks attested by 1777.
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