五、:冒号 1.冒号用于对后面内容的介绍或解释,如 This is her plan: go shopping. 2.冒号用于名单之前,特别是一个竖排的名单。 We transferred three employees to new branches: Tony Wang to New York City Mike Jackson to Tokyo Mark Foster to Paris 当名单横排的时候,冒号要用在一个完整的句子之后,如 We need seven people: three students, three engineers, and a professor. 3.冒号用于一个正式的引用之前。如 The professor said: It was horrible. 4.冒号也可用于商业或正式信函的称谓后面,如 Dear Mr. Lee:(美国英语中,信件或演说词的称呼语之后用冒号,而在英国英语中多用逗号。) 5.冒号用于数字时间的表示,如16:45 或 4:45 p.m. 6.冒号用于主标题和副标题之间,如 Web Directory: World and Non-U.S. Economic Data 六、,逗点 1.逗点用于分隔一系列的简单内容,如 I will go to Shanghai, Beijing, and Shenzhen. 2.逗点用于修饰名词的多个形容词之间,如 a small, fancy bike 3.逗点用于连接两个较长的独立子句,而且每个句子的主语不同,如 The Grizzlies were out of timeouts, and Miller missed a desperation 3-pointer as time expired. |