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quotation mark

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quotation mark


quo'tation .mark
n [C usually plural]
one of a pair of marks (' ') or (" ") that are used in writing to show that you are recording what someone has said
British Equivalent: inverted comma
1. But when I met Mark I found him a charming and intelligent young guy.
    但是当我见到马克时,我发现他是一个既讨人喜欢又聪明的年轻人。

2. This continental slope usually starts at a place somewhere near the 100-fathom mark and in the course of a few hundred miles reaches the true ocean floor at 2,500-3,500 fathoms.
    大陆架慢坡一般是从差不多100英寻水深的地方开始的,一直延伸到几百英里远深达2,500至3,500的地方,那里才是真正的海底。

3. There is a quotation from a battered women's shelter that I especially like:
    我特别喜欢一条写在受伤害妇女收容所里的语录:

4. Turning those pages and studying their photographs is like flowing on a sad current that, like Blake's Thames, seems to "mark in every face, marks of weakness, marks of woe."
    一张张翻看并研读这些照片,仿佛漂流在一条让人伤心的河流上,就像身处英国诗人布莱克笔下的泰晤士河畔,似乎 "看见每一个过往行人都是满脸饥色,满脸愁苦。"

5. He thinks fine clothes are a mark of gentility.
    他认为衣著讲究是身分高贵的标志.

6. Has Mark flown solo yet?
    马克已经单飞了吗?

7. "Mark has had problems with citizenship before and has always taken care of them himself," Gail defended. "
    "马克以前是有过公民身份方面的问题,但他总是在自己处理这些问题," 盖尔辩解道。"

8. "Why the haste? Who is this Mark? What's his citizenship status?"
    "干吗这么匆忙?这个马克是什么人?他是什么公民身份?"

9. "But Mark and I have been together more than two years," Gail railed.
    "但是我和马克呆在一起已有2年多了," 盖尔抱怨道。

10. Some day I am going to read Shakespeare and Bernard Shaw and Dickens and Mark Twain — all in the original!
    总有一天,我会去读莎士比亚、肖伯纳、狄更斯和马克·吐温的原著!

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