Ellipses
普通の英語論文では目にしないのですが、総説などでは、普段見かけないような「スタイル」を見かけることがあります。今回は、引用文中の省略。
以下、シカゴ・マニュアルから引用しておきます。
1)文中での省略
http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/16/ch13/ch13_sec052.html
"When a species . . . increases inordinately in numbers in a small tract, epidemics . . . often ensue: and here we have a limiting check independent of the struggle for life. But even some of these so-called epidemics appear to be due to parasitic worms . . . : and here comes in a sort of struggle between the parasite and its prey."
2)文中から文末の省略
http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/16/ch13/ch13_sec054.html
"I should be obliged indeed to lessen this respect, if all the nobility . . . are but so many hereditary fools, if the privilege of lords be to want brains, if noblemen can hardly write or read. . . .