| 单词 | quotation mark |
| 释义 | > as lemmasquotation mark quotation mark n. either of a pair of punctuation marks (in English, single or double inverted commas, ‘ ’ or ‘‘ ’’) used esp. to mark quoted text; usually in plural; cf. quote n.2 2b and quote mark n. at quote n.2 Compounds.Although quotation marks are principally used to mark the beginning and end of a quoted passage, a gloss, the title of an article, etc., and to enclose words regarded as informal, slang, or jargon, they are also used to mark text as being discussed rather than used (or used apologetically), and in other contexts. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > written character > punctuation > [noun] > quotation marks inverted comma1677 comma1705 quotation mark1715 quote mark1885 quote1888 1715 F. Shaw Refl. Layman's Vindic. 19 I have used those Words indeed in my Explication of the Sense of the Rubrick, but not as part of the Rubrick; that I have fairly transcribed with the Quotation Marks before it. 1795 J. Wallace Savillon's Elegies Introd. p. viii Those lines and ideas which I was conscious, or even suspected, were not my own, are distinguished with quotation marks. 1859 Harper's Mag. Feb. 408/2 Much would be gained, too, if the citations, in the New Testament from the Old, were indicated by quotation marks. 1889 Amer. Anthropologist 2 79 The single initial quotation mark (‘) denotes an initial modification of the following vowel. 1897 Cent. Mag. 563/1 I must put play in quotation-marks to express the sarcasm of it. 1928 Classical Q. 22 61 If the citation begins in the body of a line a single quotation mark is placed immediately before its first word. 2006 Vancouver Sun (Nexis) 11 Nov. c10 The theory of evolution is fact. Not ‘fact’ in quotation marks, to be picked apart by deluded doubters, but hard and simple truth. < as lemmas |
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