词汇 | pangram |
释义 | pangram noun[ C ] language specializeduk /ˈpæn.ɡræm/ us /ˈpæn.ɡræm/ a sentence that contains every letter of the alphabet, if possible with each letter only being used once: 全字母短句(指包括所有26个英文字母的短句) A familiar example of a pangram, though with duplications, is the typists' test sentence: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.举一个大家都熟悉的全字母短句的例子,虽然有些重复,但却是考验打字的一个测试句:The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The most challenging pangrams are the ones with the fewest letters. Everybody knows one or two pangrams. In his chapter on wordplay he discusses palindromes and pangrams. One measure of a pangram's quality is its shortness. Linguistics: sentences & expressions adage asyndetic asyndetically asyndeton backchannel clause coin complex sentence compound sentence concessive clause dicta dictum epigram motto phrase proverbial sentence tail Trumpism war cry Examples of pangrampangram A perfect heterogram is, however, the same as a perfect pangram, since both consist of all letters of the alphabet with each represented exactly once. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The ("e") above would have been pronounced "ye", making the pangram incomplete. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. A heterogram may be distinguished from a pangram (a holoalphabetic sentence), which uses all of the letters of the alphabet (possibly more than once). From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. In a sense, the pangram is the opposite of the lipogram, in which the aim is to omit one or more letters. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. A "perfect pangram" contains every letter of the alphabet only once and can be considered an anagram of the alphabet; it is the shortest possible pangram. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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