在英式英语中,引号通常用单引号;在美式英语中通常用双引号.
1 用以标明直接引语中的所有词语和标点符号.
2 用以引起对文中某特殊词语的注意.如术语或俚语或为某种效果而使用的词语(如反语).(这一点和中文中的用法差不多)
3 用以标明文章,短诗歌,广播及电视节目等的名称.(英文中没有书名号,一般是用引号或斜体字)
4 用以标明短小的引语或谚语.
另,短小的引语与作者提示“某某说”之类的词语之间用逗号隔开,至于引号内:
It was Disraeli who said,'Little things affect little minds'.迪斯累里说过:“琐事扰庸人.”
较长的引语与作者提示“某某说”之类的词语之间用冒号隔开,并以缩格或隔行的方式与文中其余部分隔开:
As Kenneth Morgan writes:
The truth was,perhaps,that Britain in the years from 1914 to 1983 had not changed all that
fundamentally.
Others,however,have challenged this view…
5 引语中所有的字和标点符号均置于引号内.但引用连续的几个段落时,每段的开头用前引号,段落的末尾不用后引号,只在引用的最后一段的结尾处用后引号.
6 引语里面的引语用逗号隔开,且外面一层用双引号时,里面一层用单引号,外面一层用双引号时,里面一层用单引号:
‘When the judge said,"Not guilty",I could have hugged him.
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