引言：

bracket 竟然与篮子（basket）无关？？？

noun

1

[usually pl.] 括号

either of a pair of marks, ( ), placed around extra information in a piece of writing or part of a problem in mathematics

Publication dates are given in brackets after each title.

出版日期括于书名后面。

Add the numbers in brackets first.

先把括号里的数字加起来。

2

price, age, income, etc. ~

（价格、年龄、收入等的）组级，等级

prices, etc. within a particular range

people in the lower income bracket

低收入等级的人

Most of the houses are out of our price bracket.

大多数房子都超出我们的价格范围。

the 30–34 age bracket (= people aged between 30 and 34)

30–34岁的年龄组

3

（固定在墙上的）托架，支架

a piece of wood, metal or plastic fixed to the wall to support a shelf, lamp, etc.

verb

[VN]

1

用括弧括上

to put words, information, etc. between brackets

2

~ A and B (together) | ~ A (together) with B

[often passive] 把…等同考虑；把…相提并论

to consider people or things to be similar or connected in some way

It is unfair to bracket together those who cannot work with those who will not.

把不能工作的人和不愿工作的人等同看待是不公平的。

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