記得在做畢業(yè)論文的時(shí)候,老師先讓我們自己把標(biāo)點(diǎn)和錯(cuò)別字改好了,才能給老師看。雖然中國(guó)的大學(xué)荒廢,畢業(yè)論文也荒廢,但是老師的這點(diǎn)要求在離開(kāi)學(xué)校之后顯得越來(lái)越重要。大方向人與人差別不大,是細(xì)節(jié)決定著你我他的不同?!凹?xì)節(jié)決定成敗”這樣的話我不喜歡,因?yàn)槲乙簧紩?huì)努力對(duì)抗成功的異化,但是,我希望能夠與眾不同,以此向這個(gè)世界證明我存在過(guò)。

標(biāo)點(diǎn)的規(guī)范摘抄自《美國(guó)大學(xué)英語(yǔ)寫(xiě)作》第六版。如果你不是時(shí)間很多可以不用買(mǎi),看了我的博客有什么問(wèn)題給我留言,我們一起把這些條條框框?qū)W會(huì)。

英文標(biāo)點(diǎn)(Punctuation)的使用一

一、撇號(hào)Apostrophe

1. 用來(lái)表示省略,比如:I’m I’ve I’d

需要注意的是,will not縮寫(xiě)成won’t,屬于一個(gè)特殊的形式。另一點(diǎn),更為重要,就是在書(shū)面語(yǔ)種,盡量不要使用縮寫(xiě)形式。

2. 表示所有關(guān)系

表示諸如:belongs to, possessed by, owned by, and of

用撇號(hào)表示所屬關(guān)系是最為簡(jiǎn)便快捷的(quickest and easiest),這對(duì)英語(yǔ),尤其是美式英語(yǔ)來(lái)說(shuō)非常重要。

3. 如果是單數(shù)以-s結(jié)尾的詞,所屬形式是-‘s,比如:Doris’s。但是如果是以-s結(jié)尾的復(fù)數(shù),則直接加-‘,例如:parents’。

二、引號(hào) Quotation Marks

1. 用來(lái)引用某人說(shuō)的話或者作者說(shuō)的話。

例如:

“I feel as though I’ve been here before,” Annie murmured to her husband. (注意,引號(hào)結(jié)束前沒(méi)有用句號(hào)。)

Ben Franklin once wrote, “To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.”

(注意,引號(hào)開(kāi)始要大寫(xiě)。)

“Did you know,” said the nutrition expert, “that it’s healthier to be ten pounds overweight?” (注意,在引用的過(guò)程中沒(méi)有使用冒號(hào),這是同中文標(biāo)點(diǎn)不同的地方。)

The biology professor said, “Ants are a lot like human beings. They farm their own food and raise smaller insects as livestock. And, like humans, ants end armies to war.”(注意,這個(gè)例句里面有了句號(hào)。逗號(hào)和句號(hào)的選擇不受引號(hào)存在的影響,只要在引用過(guò)程中沒(méi)有其他內(nèi)容插入,則不需要啟用新的引號(hào)。)

注意:引用是以逗號(hào)開(kāi)始的,而不是冒號(hào)。在引用結(jié)束的時(shí)候的逗號(hào)和句號(hào)都放在引號(hào)之內(nèi)。

- Every quotation begins with a capital letter.

引號(hào)開(kāi)頭要大寫(xiě)

- When a quotation is split, the second part does not begin with a capital letter unless it is a new sentence.

如果是第二部分引號(hào),除非是新的一句話,否則不需要大寫(xiě)。

- Commas are used to separate the quoted part of a sentence from the rest of the sentence.

被引號(hào)分割的句子用逗號(hào)標(biāo)志。

- Commas and periods that come at the end of quotation to inside the quotation marks.

逗號(hào)和句號(hào)要置于引號(hào)內(nèi)部。

間接引語(yǔ)

標(biāo)志詞是that

例如:

直接引語(yǔ):

The nurse said, “Some babies cannot tolerate cows’ milk.”

間接引語(yǔ):

The nurse said that some babies cannot tolerate cows’ milk.

2. 用于標(biāo)出短篇作品的名稱(chēng)

對(duì)于如下題目,需要加下劃線:

Title of books, newspapers, magazines, plays, movies, CDs, and television shows

(如在印刷體中,則使用斜體字)

但是短篇如下,需要雙引號(hào)標(biāo)志:

Articles in books, newspapers or magazines; chapters in a book; short stories; poems; and songs

The essay “On Self-Respect” in the book Slouching Towards Bethlehem

The essay “On Self-Respect” in the book Slouching Towards Bethlehem

3. 表示對(duì)特殊詞或詞組的引用

In grade school, we were taught a little jingle about the spelling rule “i before e.”

(注意,句號(hào)放在了引號(hào)之內(nèi)。)

What is the difference between “it's” and “its”?

(注意,問(wèn)好放在了引號(hào)之外。)

4. 單引號(hào)用于引號(hào)之內(nèi)的引用

The physics professor said, “For class on Friday, do the problems at the end of the chapter titled ‘Work and Energy.’”

(注意,句號(hào)放在了兩層引號(hào)之內(nèi)。)