紙上的那對符號
這一支就是鉤子本身:真的打在紙上、螢幕上的那兩個記號。
noun · B2
One of a pair of marks — ‘ ’ or “ ” — put at the start and end of some words to show that someone said or wrote them, or to mark the title of a book, song, film and so on.
引號
A pair of small hooks that hold a few words at arm's length. One hook opens, the other closes, and everything caught between them is marked as somebody else's — their exact words, their title, their name for the thing. The marks never say the words are true; they only say who they belong to.
The name is a picture of the mark itself: in metal type an opening quote was a comma turned upside down, so the mark was literally an inverted comma; the closing one was the apostrophe. Used singly they give ‘ ’, used in pairs “ ”.
這個名字直接描述符號的長相:早期鉛字印刷沒有另鑄開頭引號,就把逗號轉 180 度,所以它字面上就是「翻過來的逗號」;收尾的那個則用撇號。單用是單引號,成對排就是雙引號。
Wiktionary entry ‘inverted comma’ (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:754488370:3539), etymology_text supplied in this evidence packet
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紙上的那對符號
這一支就是鉤子本身:真的打在紙上、螢幕上的那兩個記號。
noun · B2
One of a pair of marks — ‘ ’ or “ ” — put at the start and end of some words to show that someone said or wrote them, or to mark the title of a book, song, film and so on.
引號
說話時把符號唸出來
鉤子的功能是「把字拿遠一點」。講話時看不見符號,乾脆把符號的名字說出來,距離感就出來了。
noun · B2
Said next to a word to show that this is only what the thing is usually called, and that the speaker does not think the word really fits it.
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