紙上的那個記號，以及把它唸出來
這一家就是核心畫面的字面版：真的有那個符號在句尾工作，不管是寫下來，還是用嘴巴把它的名字說出來。
noun · B1
The written mark ?, put at the end of a sentence to show that it is a question. It takes the place a full stop would take in a statement.
問號
核心畫面
Picture the little hook with a dot under it, sitting at the end of a line. Its whole job is to say: this is not settled, someone is asking. Once you can see that shape, English starts putting it in places where there is no writing at all — hanging it in the air above a plan nobody can promise, laying it over a person nobody can read, and even speaking its name out loud at the end of a sentence you are not sure of.
可以想成一個小勾勾，下面一點，蹲在一行字的最後面。它的工作只有一個：說「這件事還沒定，有人在問」。看懂這個形狀之後，…更多收起
可以想成一個小勾勾，下面一點，蹲在一行字的最後面。它的工作只有一個：說「這件事還沒定，有人在問」。看懂這個形狀之後，英文就開始把它放到沒有文字的地方：掛在一個沒人敢保證的計畫上方、蓋在一個看不透的人身上，甚至在講話時直接把它的名字唸出來，表示自己也沒把握。Two branches
把問號蓋在事情或人身上
這一家把符號從紙上拿起來，放到真實的事情上面。既然那個形狀代表「還沒定」，掛在哪裡，哪裡就變得不確定。
noun · B2
Used to say that people are not sure whether something will succeed, or even carry on at all. You picture a ? sitting above the thing, standing for all the doubt around it.
打上問號