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（收入、年齡、價格等的）范圍，等級段
If you say that someone or something is in a particular bracket, you mean that they come within a particular range, for example a range of incomes, ages, or prices.
例句
...a 33% top tax rate on everyone in these high-income brackets...
對所有這些高收入人群征收的33%的最高稅率
Do you fall outside that age bracket?
你不屬于那個年齡段嗎？
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（固定在墻上的）托架，支架，角撐架
Brackets are pieces of metal, wood, or plastic that are fastened to a wall in order to support something such as a shelf.
例句
Fix the beam with the brackets and screws.
把橫梁用托架和螺絲固定。
...adjustable wall brackets.
可調節的壁架
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把…歸為一類；把…相提并論
If two or more people or things are bracketed together, they are considered to be similar or related in some way.
例句
The Magi, Bramins, and Druids were bracketed together as men of wisdom...
東方三博士、婆羅門和德魯伊特都被視為富有智慧的人。
Austrian wine styles are often bracketed with those of northern Germany.
人們往往把奧地利葡萄酒的風味與德國北部葡萄酒的風味相提并論。
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括號，括弧（美國英語中稱作parentheses）
Brackets are a pair of written marks that you place round a word, expression, or sentence in order to indicate that you are giving extra information. In British English, curved marks like these are also called brackets, but in American English, they are called parentheses .
例句
The prices in brackets are special rates for the under 18s...
括號中的價格是年齡在18歲以下的消費者可以享受的特別優惠價。
My annotations appear in square brackets.
在方括號里有我給的注解。
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（數學上的）括號
Brackets are pair of marks that are placed around a series of symbols in a mathematical expression to indicate that those symbols function as one item within the expression.