• n. 段落；短评；段落符号
• vt. 将…分段

para-,在旁，在周围，-graph,写。即在旁边写的，写在旁边的，引申词义分段符号，段落。

paragraph (n.)

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).

1. Look at the information that precedes the paragraph in question.

查看正在讨论的这段文字前面的信息。

来自柯林斯例句

2. The length of a paragraph depends on the information it conveys.

段落的长度取决于它所传达的信息。

来自柯林斯例句

3. The second paragraph startled me even more than the first.

第二段比第一段更让我吃惊。

来自柯林斯例句

4. The critic's review of the play was just a paragraph of bile.

那位批评家对这部戏剧的评论不过是在发泄怒气。

来自《权威词典》

5. The first line of each paragraph should be indented.

每段的第一行应缩格。

来自《权威词典》