quotation

名词 n.
中文释义
美 /kwoʊˈteɪʃn̩/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A fragment of a human expression that is repeated by somebody else, for example from literature or a famous speech. countable
    — "Where they burn books, they will also burn people" is a famous quotation from Heinrich Heine.
  2. The act of quoting someone or something. uncountable
    — One of these preachers was a blacksmith, whose iron constitution had entirely given way, and the little strength that remained he exhausted in endless quotation of texts from the Bible.
  3. A price that has been quoted for buying or selling. countable
    — Let's get a quotation for repairing the roof before we decide whether it's worth doing.
  4. The act of setting a price. uncountable
  5. A quota, a share. countable,obsolete

词形变化

quotations plural

词汇关系

近义词
quote
下位词
bid ask offer
衍生词
disquotation indirect quotation logical quotation misquotation overquotation quasiquotation quotational quotationally quotation dash quotationist quotationless quotation mark request for quotation requotation RFQ underquotation
并列词
attestation

词源

The obsolete sense of “quota”, from Medieval Latin quotātiō, from Latin quotāre, is attested from the 15th century. The sense “fragment of verbal expression”, attested from the 17th century, may come from this source, or else from the verb quote + -ation.
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