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a symbol or piece of text that temporarily replaces something that is missing (替代缺失部分的)占位符,占位文字 - (
linguistics )语言学 an item which is necessary in a sentence, but does not have real meaning, for example the word ‘it’ in ‘It’s a shame she left.’ 位标(句子中必要但无实际意义的词项,如 It's a pity she left 中的 it)