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Italic letters lean to the right. Printers and screens use them to pick a word out — a title, a word from another language, or a word you want the reader to feel.
Italic letters lean to the rightitalic字體是向右傾斜的字。Printers and screens use them to pick a word out印刷者和螢幕會用它來凸顯一個詞——a title, a word from another language, or a word you want the reader to feel像書名、外來語，或希望讀者感受到語氣的字眼。
In a sentence you will often hear the noun in the plural: write it in italics. The adjective is italic type, italic script. On a keyboard the I button turns italic on.
In a sentence you will often hear the noun in the plural: write it in italics在句子裡你常會聽到這個字的複數形式：write it in italics（用斜體寫）。The adjective is italic type, italic script形容詞則是italic type、italic script。On a keyboard the I button turns italic on鍵盤上的I按鈕就是用來開啟斜體的。
The name comes from Italy: around 1500 an Italian printer, Aldo Manuzio, used this type, and English named the letters after the country. It is an everyday school and computer word.
The name comes from Italy這個名字來自義大利：around 1500 an Italian printer, Aldo Manuzio, used this sloping type大約1500年，一位義大利印刷師Aldo Manuzio（阿爾多·馬努齊歐）使用了這種傾斜的字體，and English named the letters after the country英文就以這個國家來替這種字命名。It is an everyday school and computer word它是一個學校和電腦上很常見的日常用字。
With a capital I, Italic can also mean “of ancient Italy” (Italic languages), but that is a different, more specialist use; the lean-to-the-right letters are the ones you meet first.
With a capital I, Italic can also mean "of ancient Italy" (Italic languages)開頭大寫的Italic還可以指「古代義大利的」（Italic languages，義大利語族），but that is a different, more specialist use但那是另一個比較專門的用法；the lean-to-the-right letters are the ones you meet first向右傾斜的那種字體才是你最先會遇到的意思。
原始詞典資料9 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。
Italicadj/ɪˈtalɪk/
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Of or relating to the Italian peninsula.
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Pertaining to a subfamily of the Centum branch of the Indo-European language family, that includes Latin and other languages (as Oscan, Umbrian) spoken by the peoples of ancient Italy
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datedPertaining to a subfamily of the Centum branch of the Indo-European language family, that includes Latin and other languages (as Oscan, Umbrian) spoken by the peoples of ancient Italy
- The ancient Italic languages that are now extinct include Oscan, Umbrian, and South Picene.
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historicalPertaining to various peoples that lived in Italy before the establishment of the Roman Empire, or to any of several alphabet systems used by those peoples.
- There were several Italic alphabets, one being the Etruscan alphabet.
Italicname/ɪˈtalɪk/
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The Italic family taken as a whole.
- The centum families include Celtic, Germanic, Greek, and Italic.
italicadj/ɪˈtælɪk/
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mediapublishingtypographyDesigned to resemble a handwriting style developed in Italy in the 16th century.
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mediapublishingtypographyHaving letters that slant or lean to the right; oblique.
- The text was impossible to read: every other word was underlined or in a bold or italic font.
italicnoun/ɪˈtælɪk/
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mediapublishingtypographyA typeface in which the letters slant to the right.
- Names of vessels, as the Kearsarge or the Alabama, are frequently put in italic.
- […] ROBERT GRANJON, possibly in collaboration with CLAUDE GARAMOND, had created an italic which matched Garamond Roman.
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An oblique handwriting style, such as used by Italian calligraphers of the Renaissance.
- Spenser uses two different scripts: an Elizabethan secretary hand for English texts, and an italic 'mixed' with secretary graphs for Latin texts […]
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。