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    lacuna

    Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++la·cu·na /ləˈkuːnə/ noun (plural lacunae /-niː/ or lacunas) [countable] formal  TCNa place where something is missing in a piece of writing 〔文章中的〕脱漏，缺漏 SYN gap
    Examples from the Corpus
    lacuna• What I wish to suggest is that filling the structural lacuna makes structured talk without higher-order thought look much less likely.• Let us call this the structural lacuna of the intentional scenario.    Origin lacuna (1600-1700) Latin “pool, hole in the ground, empty space”
    la·cu·na nounChineseSyllable
    a place something missing Corpus is a where piece in


    lacuna
    la‧cu‧na /ləˈkuːnə/ noun (plural lacunae /-niː/ or lacunas) [countable] formal
     Date: 1600-1700
     Language: Latin
     Origin: 'pool, hole in the ground, empty space'
    a place where something is missing in a piece of writing
       SYN  gap


    la·cunaBrE /ləˈkjuːnə/ 🔊NAmE /ləˈkjuːnə/ 🔊, also /ləˈkuːnə/ 🔊 noun (
    plural
    la·cunae BrE /ləˈkjuːniː/ 🔊 NAmE /ləˈkjuːniː/ 🔊 /ləˈkuːniː/ 🔊     or
    la·cu·nas    )     (formal)     a place where sth is missing in a piece of writing or in an idea, a theory, etc. （文章、思想、理论等中的）缺漏，脱漏，空白，阙如 SYN gap