Picture one small dot sitting at the end of a line of writing. Everything that was running forward stops there: the sentence, the reader's voice, the idea. The dictionary uses of full stop can be thought of as that dot being placed on bigger and bigger things — on a sentence, on a conversation, on a career.
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原始詞典資料5 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。
full stopnoun/ˌfʊl ˈstɒp/
- 1
The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩ (indicating the end of a sentence or marking an abbreviation).
- 2
A decisive end to something.
- [S]pielberg was keen to stress that The Fabelmans is not a full stop: “It is not because I decided to retire, and this is my swan song, don’t believe that.”
- 3
A complete stop.
- The train moved slowly, very slowly, but at least it was moving, and the customers were grateful even for indecisive motion going their way. Just outside the Nassau border, in Queens, the train came to a full stop.
- What’s more, Mr Samek did not even wake up after the car had come to a full stop: officers were forced to wake hm up by knocking on the window, according to a police report that indicated the autopilot feature was likely on “considering the vehicle’s ability to slow to a stop when Samek was asleep.”
full stopintj/ˌfʊl ˈstɒp/
- 1
Used to emphasize the end of an important statement or point when speaking to show something is not up for discussion or debate.
- We need more people to join IRC, full stop.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
- full-stop
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。