late 15c., from Middle French paragraphe "division of text" (13c., Old French paragrafe), from Medieval Latin paragraphus "sign for start of a new section of discourse" (the sign looked something like a stylized letter -P-), from Greek paragraphos "short stroke in the margin marking a break in sense," also "a passage so marked," literally "anything written beside," from paragraphein "write by the side," from para- "beside" (see para- (1)) + graphein "to write" (see -graphy).
雙語例句
1. Look at the information that precedes the paragraph in question.
查看正在討論的這段文字前面的信息。
來自柯林斯例句
2. The length of a paragraph depends on the information it conveys.
段落的長度取決于它所傳達的信息。
來自柯林斯例句
3. The second paragraph startled me even more than the first.
第二段比第一段更讓我吃驚。
來自柯林斯例句
4. The critic's review of the play was just a paragraph of bile.
那位批評家對這部戲劇的評論不過是在發(fā)泄怒氣。
來自《權(quán)威詞典》
5. The first line of each paragraph should be indented.