1 a phrase from a book, speech, play, etc, that sb repeats because it is interesting or useful 引文;引语:
a quotation from Shakespeare引自莎士比亚的话
2 a statement that says how much a piece of work will probably cost 报价:
You should get quotations from three different builders.你应该分别向三个建筑商索取报价。☞Look at estimate ¹. 参看estimate^1。
quotation/kwoˋteʃən; kwəʊˈteIʃ$n/n [C] 1 words that come from a book, poem etc 引语﹐引文﹐语录: +from a quotation from the Bible 引自《圣经》的话2 a statement showing how much it will cost to do something 报价: Ask the builder to give you a written quotation for the job. 叫建筑商给你一份这项工程的书面报价。
quotationquotationquotations (alsoquote) nounwords that you say or write, that another person said or wrote before: That's a quotation from a poem by Keats.