Irregular forms are given in parentheses.

不规则形式标注在括号内。

《牛津词典》

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An expression in parentheses.

用括号括起来的表达式。

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And then notice the structure, WHILE I got a keyword WHILE, there's that color identifying it, and in parentheses I have a test.

然后注意这个结构，有一个关键词，颜色就可以区分出它了，然后括号内是个测试。

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You might recall from grade school sometimes you put things in parentheses so that your addition happens first, then your multiplication, otherwise multiplication would happen by default first.

你们可能会想起小学时，将一些加法表达式,放在圆括号里，这样加法可以先计算，然后是乘法，否则，乘法默认先发生。

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And when we describe this in terms of talking about chemistry terminology, we would call the first one the 1 s, and 1 is in parentheses because we're talking about the first electron there, and we would multiply it by the wave function for the second one, which is also 1 s, but now we are talking about that second electron.

当我们用化学术语来,描述它的时候，我们称第一个为“1s“,括号中的1是因为我们,在谈论第一个电子,而且我们会用它的波函数，乘以第二个,第二个也是“1s“,但是我们现在谈论的是,第二个电子。

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Use your former name in parentheses in your email signature and on websites.

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If they couldn't spot the analytical flaws, they might have done something about the stylistic ones that range from curious analogies to long phrases in parentheses.

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Year-earlier rank is in parentheses.

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