| 释义 |
question markˈquestion mark ●●○ noun [countable]   - All the mirrors grew convex, she fingered the globe in its pregnant question mark.
- Another question mark will be how the offering apportions the values of Wired, HotWired and HardWired.
- But when he looked at me, that furrow of care between his eyes turned into a question mark.
- If the bolts were responsible, then a further question mark will hang over the future of the industry.
- In the middle was a sharp little machine self-portrait, with a blinking question mark inside on the screen inside the screen.
- They grew up in the Depression, when the certainty of a meal was a question mark.
- Why did it have a question mark?
types of punctuation mark► apostrophe the sign (') that is used to show that one or more letters or numbers have been left out, as in don’t, or used before ‘s’ to show that something belongs to someone or something, as in Mark’s dog ► brackets British English, parentheses AmE and BrE formal a pair of signs ( ) used for enclosing information that interrupts a sentence ► colon the sign : that is used to introduce an explanation, example, quotation etc ► semicolon the sign ; that is used to separate words in a list, or different parts of a sentence that can be understood separately ► comma the sign , that is used to separate things in a list, or between two clauses in a sentence ► hyphen the sign – that is used to join words or syllables ► dash the sign — that is used to separate two closely related parts of a sentence, especially in more informal English ► full stop British English, period American English the sign . that is used to mark the end of a sentence or the short form of a word ► exclamation mark British English, exclamation point American English the sign ! that is used after a sentence or word that expresses surprise, anger, or excitement ► question mark the sign ? that is used at the end of a question ► quotation marks (also inverted commas British English) a pair of signs ‘ and ’ that are put around words, especially to show that you are quoting what someone has said ► Letters & punctuationA, nounABC, nounalpha, nounalphabet, nounalphabetical, adjectiveampersand, nounapostrophe, nounasterisk, nounB, nounbeta, nounblock capitals, nounblock letters, nounbrace, nounbracket, nounbracket, verbC, nouncapital, nouncapital, adjectivecapitalize, verbcaps, cedilla, nouncircumflex, nounclause, nouncolon, nouncomma, nounconsonant, nounCyrillic, adjectiveD, noundash, noundelta, noundiacritic, nounditto, nounE, nounexclamation mark, nounF, nounG, noungamma, nounGothic, adjectivegrave, adjectiveH, nounhyphen, nounI, nounIPA, nounJ, nounK, nounL, nounletter, nounlower case, nounM, nounN, nounNHS, the, O, nounoblique, nounomega, nounP, nounparenthesis, nounperiod, nounpunctuate, verbpunctuation, nounpunctuation mark, nounQ, nounquestion mark, nounquestion tag, nounquotation mark, nounR, nounrune, nounS, nounschwa, nounscript, nounsemicolon, nounslash, nounsmall, adjectivespeech marks, nounsquare bracket, nounstar, nounstenography, nounstress mark, nounT, nountilde, nounU, nounumlaut, nounupper case, nounV, nounvowel, nounW, nounX, nounY, nounZ, nounzed, noun 1the mark (?) that is used at the end of a question2there is a question mark over something/a question mark hangs over something used to say that there is a possibility that something will not be successful or will not continue to exist:  A big question mark hangs over the company’s future. |