| 单词 | inverted comma |
| 释义 | inverted comma (once / 39663 pages) n WORD FAMILY inverted comma: inverted commas USAGE EXAMPLESSexting is so widespread it no longer needs inverted commas. The Guardian(Nov 05, 2016) She put this word into inverted commas by making the wiggly quotation sign with her first and second fingers. Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in...(2003) “It stinks of Sport,” said Mordred in inverted commas, “and the Done Thing and the Best People. Let’s go to the garden.” T. H. White, The Once and Future King(1958) n a punctuation mark used to attribute the enclosed text to someone else Syn|Hypo|Hyper quotation mark, quote single quote a single quotation mark double quotesa pair of quotation marks scare quotethe use of quotation marks to indicate that it is not the authors preferred terminology punctuation, punctuation mark the marks used to clarify meaning by indicating separation of words into sentences and clauses and phrases |
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