Colon & Semicolon 冒号,分号以及其他符号
Colon 冒号
linking function 连接功能:
- List 列表:We needed to find three items on the scavenger hunt : a four-leaf clover, a cauldron, and a abandoned ship.
- Items 项目:I only wanted one thing from the grocery store : peanuts.
- 引用:My friend Liz says it best: "Never open a jar of pickles you can't close"
Separator 作为分隔符:
- 标题: Bear Man: Adventures in Alaska
- 章节:1 Corinthians 13:4
- 时间 It is now 10:09 AM.
Semicolon 分号
- 分割意思相近的两个独立的句子:I have a big test tomorrow; I can't go out tonight.
- 分割复杂的列表:
- I have lived in many cities: New York, NY; San Francisco, CA; and Knoxville, TN.
- I need to buy a textbook, a workbook, and a dictionary for Spanish; a calculator for math; and a map for geography.
Italic 斜体 & Underline 下划线
这两者的作用是一样的:
- Emphasis 强调:I really want to go to the concert.
- Titles 标题:The book The Catcher in the Rye is a classic.
Quotation Marks 引号
- 引用:My mom said, "You need to clean your room."
- 大项中的小项:Free Hand Album "On Reflection" is a great album.(Free Hand Album 是专辑名,On Reflection 是歌曲名)
注意:斜体和下划线用于大标题(书名、专辑名、电视节目名等),引号用于小标题(短篇故事、歌曲、电视节目片段)。
Parenthesis 括号
作用:
- 额外信息:The cookie (which was still warm) was delicious.
- 引用信息:Paige says, "Oh no, a tiger!" (Finch, Life and Times, p. 38)
- 插入信息:"Furthermore, (coughs) I must firmly state that."
Dash 破折号
作用:
- Interrupt structure 中断结构:I ran to the bus stop -- but the bus had already driven away.
- Can act like parenthesis in pairs 可以像括号一样:The bug -- which landed on my nose -- had to be the size of a size of a softball.
- Used like a colon 像冒号一样:I have only ever wanted one thing -- SNACKS.
- Indicates interruption in speech 表示对话中的中断: "watch out for that--" WHAM.
Hyphen 连字符
随着互联网的发展:on line -> on-line -> online
- hyphenated compound words 由连字符连接的复合词:on-line
- compound words 复合词: online
Ellipsis 省略号
作用:
- Indicate a pause 表示停顿:I don't know... I just don't know.
- Shows that a portion of quoted material has been taken out 表示引用材料的部分被省略:"Words are ... our most inexhaustible source of magic."--Albus Dumbledore