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quotation marks
quotation marksQuotation marks are most commonly used to indicate the exact words that someone else said. This is known as direct speech or direct quotation. There are two forms of quotation marks: double quotation marks ( “ ” ) and single quotation marks ( ‘ ’ ). American English almost exclusively uses double quotation marks, while British English tends to favor single quotation marks.Continue reading...Translationsquote (kwəut) verb1. to repeat the exact words of a person as they were said or written. to quote Shakespeare / Shakespeare's words / from Shakespeare, `Is this a dagger which I see before me?' 引述 引述2. to name (a price). 報價 报价3. to mention or state in support of an argument. to quote an example. 引證 引证quoˈtation noun1. a person's exact words, as repeated by someone else. a quotation from Shakespeare. 語錄 语录2. a price mentioned (for a job etc). 行情 行情3. the act of quoting. 報價 报价quotation marks marks (``'' or `') used to show that a person's words are being repeated exactly. He said `I'm going out.' 英文的引號 引号
Quotation Marks
quotation marksQuotation marks are most commonly used to indicate the exact words that someone else said. This is known as direct speech or direct quotation. There are two forms of quotation marks: double quotation marks ( “ ” ) and single quotation marks ( ‘ ’ ). American English almost exclusively uses double quotation marks, while British English tends to favor single quotation marks.Continue reading...Quotation Marks paired punctuation marks used in atext to set off direct speech, citations, and titles, as well as wordsand expressions used in an ironic sense or in an unusual meaning.Quotation marks are represented graphically in two forms:guillemets, or French quotation marks (« »), and double com-mas, or German quotation marks („ “). In addition to theseforms, single quotation marks (‘ ’) are sometimes used to denotethe translation of a foreign word—for example, German Tisch, ’table.’ FinancialSeeQuoteThesaurusSeequotation mark |