bracketing

基本解释

And, with bracketing ({ and }), you can use multiple statements.
而且，使用大括号（ { 和 }）时，还能使用多条语句。
But eastern Europeans are distressed to hear so much talk of “partners” (bracketing countries as different as China and Poland) and so little of “allies”.
然而东欧对于如此多的“合作伙伴”（把像中国和波兰那样不同的国家区分开来）和那么少“联盟”的称谓感到悲痛。
The server-side APIs also include an operation for explicitly bracketing an arbitrary sequence of read and write operations into a single atomic transaction.
服务器端 API 还包括一个操作，用于显式地将任意的读和写操作序列包装为单个原子事务。

Temporarily, as we advance through the syllabus, we're bracketing or suspending our interest in meaning and focusing instead on how something is made.
但是根据课程大纲，我们要暂时收起对于文本含义的兴趣,转而探索文本是怎么组合的。
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There's no panorama or bona fide HDR mode (the camera supports bracketing, but doesn't combine the results).
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But that Pakistan-Japan bracketing, west and east, has taken on new meaning of late because the two countries are, in their very different ways, serious headaches for the region and the world.
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