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    /ˈkɑːmə/ · /ˈkɒmə/

    the mark (,) that you use in writing to show a short pause in a sentence, or to keep the things in a list apart from each other.

    逗號

    複數 commas

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

    這一義的完整解析還沒打開。訂閱後可以看到例句怎麼拆、常跟哪些字一起出現， 以及容易跟它搞混的字。

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核心畫面

You can picture a comma as the small hook you drop into a line of writing to hold two things slightly apart — long enough for the reader to take a short breath, or just enough to stop the items in a list from running into each other.

可以想成寫字時放進句子裡的那個小勾（,）：它的作用是把前後兩塊稍微拉開一點——讀的人到這裡會停半拍再繼續，或者在一串…更多收起可以想成寫字時放進句子裡的那個小勾（,）：它的作用是把前後兩塊稍微拉開一點——讀的人到這裡會停半拍再繼續，或者在一串東西之間畫出界線，免得 apples, bread, milk 黏成一團看不出誰是誰。它不像句號那樣把話結束，只是讓句子中間有個換氣和分隔的地方。

原始詞典資料8 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

commanoun/ˈkɒmə/

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    mediapublishingtypographyThe punctuation mark ⟨,⟩ used to indicate a set of parts of a sentence or between elements of a list.

    • No points were used by the ancient printers, excepting the colon and the period; but, after some time, a short oblique stroke, called a virgil, was introduced, which answered to the modern comma. In the fifteenth century this punctuation was improved by the famous Aldus Manutius with the typographical art in general; when he gave a better shape to the comma, added the semicolon, and assigned to the former points more proper places.
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    mediapublishingtypographyA similar-looking subscript diacritical mark.

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    biologyentomologynatural-sciencesAny of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Polygonia, having a comma-shaped white mark on the underwings, especially Polygonia c-album and Polygonia c-aureum of North Africa, Europe, and Asia.

    • Commas (Polygonia comma) and Question Marks (Polygonia interrogationis) occur from the Gulf Coast to Canada and west to the Rockies. [...] Question Marks and Commas are handsome butterflies with burnt orange and black markings. [...] On the underside of each hind wing of the Comma is a small, distinctive silver hook that resembles a comma.
    • Other members of this genus that are frequently encountered in the park are the eastern comma (P. comma) and question mark (P. interrogationis).
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    entertainmentlifestylemusicA difference in the calculation of nearly identical intervals by different ways.

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    biologygeneticsmedicineA delimiting marker between items in a genetic sequence.

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    In Ancient Greek rhetoric, a short clause, something less than a colon, originally denoted by comma marks. In antiquity it was defined as a combination of words having no more than eight syllables in all. It was later applied to longer phrases, e.g. the Johannine comma.

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    A brief interval.

commaverb/ˈkɒmə/

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    rareTo place a comma or commas within text; to follow, precede, or surround a portion of text with commas.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。