excerpt

extracto, fragmento

Parte breve tomada de un texto más largo.

En inglés sencillo: A short part taken from a longer piece of writing.

• We read a short excerpt.
• The article includes excerpts from his diary.
• Which chapter is this excerpt from?

Cómo se usa: excerpt from something (She read an excerpt from her new book.)

Sinónimos: extract, passage

Expresiones frecuentes: excerpt from something, short excerpt, read an excerpt

extractar

Elegir y copiar una parte breve de un texto más largo.

En inglés sencillo: To choose and copy a short part of a longer piece of writing.

• Please excerpt the final paragraph.
• The magazine excerpted two pages from her memoir.
• Can we excerpt this section for the newsletter?

Cómo se usa: excerpt something from something (The editor excerpted a paragraph from the report.)

Sinónimos: extract

Expresiones frecuentes: excerpt a passage, excerpt from something