| 单词 | 标点符号 |
| 释义 | 〔punctuate〕To provide (a text) with punctuation marks.给（文章）加标点符号〔open〕Designating a method of punctuation in which commas and other marks are used sparingly.少用标点符号的：在不引起混淆的情况下可能时省略逗号和其他符号的〔period〕A punctuation mark ( . ) indicating a full stop, placed at the end of declarative sentences and other statements thought to be complete, and after many abbreviations.句号：一种表示完全停顿的标点符号（。），放在句末或认为将会完成的阐述后及许多缩略式后〔period〕Perhaps more than once one may have wonderedwhy the wordperiod has the sense "punctuation mark ( . )” as well as some of its other senses having to do with time.The answer to this question lies in the senses of the Greek wordperiodos from which our word is descended. Periodos, made up of peri-, "around,” and hodos, "way,” meant such things as "going round, way round, going round in a circle, circuit,”and with regard to time "cycle or period of time.”The word also meant "the period of menstruation.”In rhetoric it referred to "a group of words organically related in grammar and sense.”The Greek word was adopted into Latin asperihodos with only its rhetorical sense and one other sense,but in Medieval Latin it reacquired senses it had in Greek,such as "cycle,” and acquired a new sense,"a punctuation mark used at the end of a rhetorical period.”Although this sense is recorded in Medieval Latin,it is not recorded in English until 1609.But the wordperiod had entered Middle English from Medieval Latin and Old French, first being recorded in a work written around 1425in the sense "a cycle of recurrence of a disease.”或许任何人都会不止一次的发出疑问，为什么period 有“标点符号（。）”的意思， 同时其它意思与时间有关。此问的答案来自我们的单词源自的希腊语单词periodos 的意思。 Periodos ，由意为“周围”的 peri- 和意为“方式”的 hodos 组成， 该词意味着“围绕…走，围绕…的路，转圈走，围绕，”同时也指时间，意为“一段时间或时间周期”。此词也意为“经期”。在修辞学中指“一组在语法和词意上有机相连的词。”这个希腊词作为perihodos 被拉丁文所采用， 仅带有修辞和一个其他的意思，但在中世纪拉丁语中它重新得到了它在希腊语中的意思，例如“周期”，后来又得到一个新的意思，即“用于修辞部分末尾的标点符号”。尽管此意在中世纪拉丁语中有记载，但直到1609年才在英语中有记载。而period 从中世纪拉丁文和古法语中进入中世纪英语， 并首次记载于约1425年所著的作品中，意为“疾病发作的周期”〔alphanumeric〕Consisting of or utilizing alphabetic and numerical symbols and punctuation marks, mathematical symbols, and other conventional symbols:混合符号的：包括或使用字母和数字符号、标点符号、数学符号和其它常规符号的：〔hyphen〕A punctuation mark ( - ) used between the parts of a compound word or name or between the syllables of a word, especially when divided at the end of a line of text.连字号：用于一个合成词的两部分之间的或一个单词的字节之间的一种标点符号，尤其是一行或一段结束时用〔dash〕A punctuation mark (—) used in writing and printing.破折号：一种标点符号，用于写作或打字中〔interrobang〕A punctuation mark used especially to end a simultaneous question and exclamation.问叹号：用以结束同时发生疑问和感叹语气句子的标点符号〔mark〕A written or printed symbol used for punctuation; a punctuation mark.标点符号：书写或打印的用作标点的符号；标点符号〔close〕Marked by more rather than less punctuation, especially commas.大量使用标点符号的：由多个而不是少数几个标点标记的，尤其是逗号 |
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