英语释义

• the mark (') used to indicate the omission of one or more letters from a printed word

• address to an absent or imaginary person

片语

i apostrophe省略号

ellipsis省略；省略符号；脱漏

apostrophe character单引号字符

apostrophe ellipsis省略符号

apostrophe editing单引号编辑

backward apostrophe向后撇号

Apostrophe Hotel撇号酒店

apostrophe e书写中撇号

英汉例句

• before the seventeenth century the apostrophe was rare.

  17世纪以前，撇号很少被运用。

• by the time ash was writing, the apostrophe was being used to form plurals.

  在ash这样写的时候，撇号还被用于名词末尾组成复数。

• the code in listing 2 has no mystery about what a particular semicolon or apostrophe means.

  在特定分号或撇号的含义方面，清单2中的代码没有任何隐晦之处。

• while this is not to say that the apostrophe should be renounced, there is plenty of evidence that it is on the way out.

  虽然这不是说应该废弃撇号，但有充分的证据表明撇号已经过时了。

• an apostrophe can be used to show certain speech patterns.

  可以用重音符号来表示某种特定的说话腔调。

• the fourth line is particularly troubling because not only is the apostrophe missing but so is the substitution parameter.

  第四行特别麻烦，因为不仅遗漏了撇号，而且还遗漏了替代参数！

• each time that the woman passed in front of him, he bestowed on her, together with a puff from his cigar, some apostrophe which he considered witty and mirthful, such as, 「how ugly you are!

  那妇人每次从他面前走过，他总吸上一口雪茄，把烟喷她，并向她说些自以为诙谐有趣的怪话，如「你多么丑！」

• he said that people should stop worrying about 」text message speak「 creeping into general usage and called for the apostrophe to be abolished.

  他说，人们无需担心「短信用语」渗透进日常用语之中，他甚至呼吁废除英语中的所有格符号。

• use the following character map to prevent escaping all ampersand (&), less than (greater than (>), apostrophe (「), and double quote (」) characters.

  使用下列字符映射避免转义所有的与符号（&）、小于号（大于号（>）、单引号（」）和双引号（「）字符。

• the purdue online writing lab also explains how to use an apostrophe correctly in possessives and other cases.

  普渡在线写作研究室也解释了如何在所有格及其它时态中如何正确使用撇号。

• the apostrophe indicates a sound which is frequently uttered, but not written, in english.

  这个撇号在英语里表示频繁的念出来但是不写出来的音。

• for instance, what about matching words containing an apostrophe (「) character—don」t, who「re, e」er, owner「s, 」cause, joe「s, and so on?

  例如，对于包含撇号 (」)字符— 的单词（如don「t、who」re、e「er、owner」s、「cause、joe」s等等）如何处理呢？

• but, contrary to what defenders of the apostrophe imagine, its status has long been moot.

  不过，出乎撇号形象护卫者的意料，撇号的地位一直尚待讨论。

• in a volume entitled 」grammatical institutes「 (1760), john ash went so far as to say that the possessive apostrophe 」seems to have been introduced by mistake.

  在一本名为「语法规则」（1760）的书中，johnash甚至提出撇号表示拥有的用法「貌似是错误引入的」。

• in britain, the apostrophe has, for some time, been vanishing from street signs, much to the chagrin of the apostrophe protection society (founded 2001).

  在英国，撇号曾一度从路牌上消失，让2001年成立的撇号保护社团很是懊恼。

• initially the apostrophe was used to signify the omission of a sound.

  起初，撇号用于标识一个音节的省略，渐渐地又用于表示拥有。

• although it seemed natural to use an apostrophe in the possessive plural, authorities, such as the grammarian robert lowth, argued against this.

  尽管在复数名词后使用撇号表示拥有看起来很自然，还是有权威反对这用法，比如语法学家robertlowth。

• shoppers passing by don’t think: i’m not going to buy them because the apostrophe is misplaced.

  路过的购物者不会这样想：我不会去买他的东西，因为那一撇放错了位置。

• before she reached the house, gouvernail had lighted a fresh cigar and ended his apostrophe to the night.

  在她回到住宅前，高维内尔重新点燃了一直雪茄，结束了他对夜晚的感叹。

• initially the apostrophe was used to signify the omission of a sound. gradually it came to signify possession.

  起初，撇号用于标识一个音节的省略，渐渐地又用于表示拥有。