apostrophe
US /əˈpɑː.strə.fi/
UK /əˈpɒs.trə.fi/
名词
1.
撇号
a punctuation mark (') used to indicate possession or the omission of letters or numbers.
示例:
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The boy's hat was lost, so he used an apostrophe to show possession.
男孩的帽子丢了，所以他用撇号来表示所有格。
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The word 'don't' uses an apostrophe to show the omission of the letter 'o'.
单词“don't”使用撇号表示字母“o”的省略。
2.
呼语, 顿呼
an address to an absent or imaginary person or to a personified abstraction, especially as a rhetorical device in literature.
示例:
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In his poem, he uses an apostrophe to directly address the moon.
在他的诗中，他使用呼语直接向月亮致辞。
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O, Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo? is a famous example of an apostrophe.
哦，罗密欧，罗密欧！你为什么是罗密欧？是呼语的一个著名例子。
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