引號?Quotation Marks
引號通常是一對(“ ?”)出現(xiàn)的拥坛,跟圓括號(Parentheses)和括號(Brackets)一樣皮假。
用法如下:
1)表示對話內(nèi)容
2)標(biāo)記題目
3)令人注意某些字句
4)引述某人所提及的確切字句?
1)表示對話內(nèi)容:?
例子:
“I don't know how you can see to drive,” she said.
“Maybe you should put on your glasses.”
“Putting on my glasses would help you to see?”
“Not me; you,” Macon said. “You're focused on the windshield instead of the road.”
-Anne Tyler, The Accidental Tourist
2)標(biāo)記題目:?
例子:?
I.?????Poem: “In My Black Book”
II.?????Song: “Piano Man”
III.????Short Story: “The Cask of Amantillado”
IV.????Essay in a book: “Every Child Can Be Beautiful” (from Marjorie Holmes’s As Tall as My Heart)
V.?????Chapter in a book: “The Journey from Platform Nine and Three-quarters” (from J K Rowling's Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)
VI.????Article in a magazine: “Anybody's Child” (from Esquire)
VII. ??Television/radio program:“Dateline” (from NBC News)“Spinning on Air”?(from WNYC Radio)
句例:??
i) Discuss the rhyme scheme of Lucinda Roy's “African Village Women.”?
ii) Have you read “The Cask of Amantillado”??
iii) One of the best sources I found is “Anybody's Child.”
3)令人注意某些字句:?
例子:?
i) The proposed tax “reform” is actually a tax increase.
ii) Many people confuse “affect” and “effect.”
iii) He was a “good” child: he never cried, never took his toys apart, never got dirty.
4)引述某人所提及的確切字句:?
用于短引述句?short quotation拖陆,例子如下:
Cicero, the great Roman orator, said this about fidelity: “Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences of the human mind.”
注意:?
1)句號及逗號都放在引號之內(nèi)。?
例子:?
She said, “You have to come back before 10pm.”
“You have to come back before 10pm,” she said.
2)分號,冒號栗涂,破折號都放在引號之外。?
例子:?
i)?????John was impressed by the wisdom of the article “Don’t Put Your Money into the Stock Market”;?nevertheless, he keeps buying stocks.
ii)????You have to photocopy the following articles as soon as you have finished reading “To the Light House”:?
iii)????He insisted over and over again, “I'm pure Indian; I'm pure Indian”-what a joke!
3)如果問號及感嘆號是引述資料的一部份祈争,須放在引號以內(nèi)斤程,否則應(yīng)放在引號外面。?
例子:?
i)?????“Will she really come to our Halloween party?” he asked.
但是菩混,?
ii)????Who originally made the statement “Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely”??
iii)????“New York! What a fascinating city!” she exclaimed.
但是忿墅,
iv) ?If only I could have foreseen the tragic consequences of my suggestion that she read Sylvia Plath’s “I Thought That I Could Not Be Hurt”!
4)如果引述句中再有引述資料,則可在雙引號內(nèi)使用單引號沮峡。?
例子:?
My teacher asked me, “Have you ever read ‘The Perfume’?”
省略號?Ellipsis?
1)??????? 如果在引述資料中疚脐,有某些字須要省去,可使用省略號表示邢疙。例子:?
原引述內(nèi)容:?
The York record shows that infant mortality (in the first three weeks of life) was indeed higher in some months than in others, but oddly enough the mortality rate was particularly high in seasons of high birthrate.
Ursula M Cowgill, “The People of York: 1538-1812”
省略后:?
The York record shows that infant mortality...was indeed higher in some months than in others, but oddly enough the mortality rate was particularly high in seasons of high birthrate.
注意:?
1)若果省略部份是在開端或結(jié)尾時亮曹,則無須加上省略號。?
2)?如果引述部份是句子的結(jié)尾秘症,但引述部份并不是原來引述句子的結(jié)束時照卦,便須用省略號。情形如下:
i)如果省略號之后沒有用括號乡摹,則在結(jié)尾時用?
句號+省略號+引號?
Simmer says people have described personal space as “a snail, a soap bubble, an aura....”
ii) 如果省略號之后有用括號役耕,則在結(jié)尾時用?
省略號+引號+括號+句號?
Simmer says people have described personal space as “a snail, a soap bubble, an aura...” (26).?* 26是指資料所在的頁碼。
在講話中聪廉,省略號可表達說話中斷的意思瞬痘。?
例子:“And, anyway, what do you know of him?”
“Nothing. That is why I ask you...”“I would prefer never to speak of him.”