excerpt

extrait

Petit passage tiré d’un texte plus long.

En anglais simple : 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?

Comment l'utiliser : excerpt from something (She read an excerpt from her new book.)

Synonymes : extract, passage

Expressions courantes : excerpt from something, short excerpt, read an excerpt

extraire

Choisir et recopier un court passage d’un texte plus long.

En anglais simple : 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?

Comment l'utiliser : excerpt something from something (The editor excerpted a paragraph from the report.)

Synonymes : extract

Expressions courantes : excerpt a passage, excerpt from something