1540s, "words, clauses, etc. inserted into a sentence," from Middle French parenthèse (15c.), from Late Latin parenthesis "addition of a letter to a syllable in a word," from Greek parenthesis, literally "a putting in beside," from parentithenai "put in beside," from para- "beside" (see para- (1)) + en- "in" + tithenai "put, place" (see theme). Sense extension by 1715 from the inserted words to the curved brackets that indicate the words inserted.
A wooden parenthesis; the pillory. An iron parenthesis; a prison. ["Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit and Pickpocket Eloquence," London, 1811]
雙語例句
1. In parenthesis, I'd say that there were two aspects to writing you must never lose sight of.
插一句，關于寫作，我認為有兩個方面你絕不能忽視。
來自柯林斯例句
2. I should like to mention another point here by way of parenthesis.
在這里我想附帶再提一下另外一點.
來自辭典例句
3. I should like to mention this by way of parenthesis.
我想附帶地提一提這個問題.
來自辭典例句
4. Items encapsulated in parenthesis are evaluated first and have the highest precedence.
先給包含在括號中的項目賦值,它擁有最高的優先權.
來自互聯網
5. A common syntax error is to omit a parenthesis.