本文特意整理了多數英文標點的標準使用方式,並作了中文譯作。便於收藏,寫作時可以隨時參考學習哦。
Quotation marks - 引號("")
a. Use quotation mark to enclose what someone says.
- 直接引用別人的話
b. Do not use quotation marks with indirect quotations.
- 使用引號("")時請勿放入非直接引用的話(比如他人轉述或編輯過的內容)
c. If a quotation is half direct and half indirect, do not use quotation marks unless you want to emphasize the quotation
- 如果不是完全直接引用的原話,請不要使用引號(""), 除非你想刻意強調它。
d. Thoughts or questions in someone’s mind (in other words, ideas not spoken out loud) do not need quotation marks.
- 某人心裏的想法或疑問(換句話説,沒有直接説出來的話)並不需要引號("")。
e. Use quotation marks for definitions.
f. Use quotation marks for sayings.
- 某個概念的定義,和名言諺語,使用引號("")。
g. Use quotation marks for labels, markings, signs, etc.
- 標籤、標記、記號等。
例句:Label this container “good toys” and that one “broken toys.”
h. Use quotation marks to indicate the clever or silly use of a word.
- 使用引號暗示某些詞更聰明,或故意顯得傻氣的用法。
標點符號和雙引號的'位置:
1. Commas and periods always go inside the quotation mark.
- 英文標點中,逗號(, )和句號(. )永遠在雙引號("")的裏面。
2. Colons and semicolons always go outside the quotation mark.
- 冒號(: )和分號(; )永遠在引號("")的外面。
3. If a quotation is within a quotation, use single quotation marks around it.
- 如果引用的話中還有引用的內容,那麼使用單引號(' ')。
Ellipses 省略號(…)
a. Use an ellipsis to indicate that some words have been left out of a quotation.
- 使用省略號説明引用的話中,有一部分被省略了。
b. Use an ellipsis to indicate that something unwritten came earlier.
- 使用省略號説明,此前還有段話沒寫出來。
例句: “… I do,” said Mimi.
c. Use an ellipsis to indicate a sentence trailing off.
- 使用省略號提示,還有一句話“未完待續”。(比如,某一頁書的最後一句放了省略號)
Imagine this as the final sentence of a book chapter—it entices you to turn the page to read what happens next:
Tom and Carlos were camping in the woods, asleep in their tent, when they heard it—the sound…
d. Use an ellipsis to indicate a long, slow break.
- 暗示有一段時間較長、較緩慢的暫停。
Long, slow break: There it was again…that soft but eerie sound.
Fast, crisp break:
There it was again - that loud, crashing sound.
4. If only yes or no is quoted, you do not have to use quotation marks.
- 如果引用的只有Yes或No,不必使用雙引號("")。
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