喜樂美語
  1. 1nB1/ˈkɑːmə/ · /ˈkɒmə/逗號

    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.

    示範例句 · Example

    Put a comma after each thing in the list: apples, bread, and milk.

    逐字在清單裡的每樣東西後面放一個逗號：蘋果、麵包和牛奶。

    comma 就是英文寫作裡的那個小小的「,」。它有兩個工作：一是在句子中間做一個短短的停頓，念出來的時候會稍微喘一口氣；二是把清單裡的每樣東西隔開，例如 eggs, rice, milk。可以想成它就像一把小剪刀，把一長串字剪成一段一段，讀的人才看得懂——LDOCE 也記錄它來自希臘文「剪下來的一小段」。要注意英文的逗號是半形的「,」，後面空一格，跟中文的全形「，」和頓號「、」都不一樣。

    常見搭配

    • use a comma

      使用逗號

      to write a comma in a sentence

      You should use a comma before 'but' in this sentence.

    • put a comma (after / before something)

      在某處加上逗號

      to add a comma in a particular place

      Put a comma after the name of the city.

    • separated by a comma

      以逗號隔開

      with a comma between them

      The two answers should be separated by a comma.

    • a colon, comma, or dash

      冒號、逗號或破折號（三選一）

      any one of these punctuation marks, when you are choosing between them

      The next question is whether to use a colon, comma, or dash after the greeting.

    • inverted commas

      引號（英式說法）

      the pair of marks ' ' put around words someone said (British English; American English says quotation marks)

      She put the words in inverted commas to show they were not her own.

    意思相近

    punctuation mark

core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。

複數 commas

意思相近

punctuation mark

原始詞典資料8 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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/

  • 1

    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.
  • 2

    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.

  • 6

    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/

  • 1

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

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