punctuation mark

音標發(fā)音

The ellipsis is the punctuation mark (…) that indicates an intentional omission.
省略號表示的是作者蓄意的省略。
Although the hyphen does look quite a bit like a dash or minus sign, it is a punctuation mark.
盡管連字符看上去很像破折號或減號，但他還是一個符點符號而非數(shù)字符號。
Today, most of the elite players from all 32 countries at the World Cup play each other every week in European pro leagues — for which the tournament is simply a punctuation mark between seasons.
現(xiàn)如今，匯聚世界杯來自32個國家的頂尖高手，大多數(shù)人每周都要在歐洲職業(yè)聯(lián)賽上你來我往，擦槍走火一番——如此一來，世界杯簡直就可稱得上是兩賽季間的一個標點符號。

"It seems that a lot of errors revolve around the apostrophe, that eternally misunderstood punctuation mark, " he says.
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Another issue is that a lot of times, we'd miss one character or accidentally highlight a nearby punctuation mark, which makes the translation a tad slower as it needs to talk to the server.
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The same goes for any other type of punctuation mark, and while it's rather awkward at first to speak out these marks that usually fly through your thoughts as you're going from word to word, it grows easier with time.
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A punctuation mark is a symbol such as a period, comma, or question mark that you use to divide written words into sentences and clauses.