Even native speakers have trouble with these punctuation marks when writing English.

即使是以英语为母语人，写英语时也会遇到使用这些符号难题。

Maybe that's why we toss these punctuation marks around like grammatical confetti.

双重功能之因, 让人摸门不着。

The last punctuation mark we are going to talk about today is the apostrophe.

我们今天要讲最后一个是撇号。

Before emoji, emoticons had let you express how you felt by using combinations of punctuation marks.

emoji 出现之前，表情符号可以让你通过使用符号组合来表达你感受。

Punctuation marks and other things like spaces and indents help the reader understand the structure and organization of writing.

符号和其他如空格和缩进能帮助读者理解文组织结构。

As you can see, the placement of this punctuation mark can really change the meaning of a sentence.

如你所见，这符号所位置会改变整句话意思。

We used these terms to name our punctuation marks—although they actually refer to the clauses not to the dots themselves.

我们用这些术语来命名我们符号。尽管这些术语本意是指停顿而非本身？

[Voiceover] So this is a superhero punctuation mark.

- [画外音] 所以这是一个超级英雄符号。

Period - we're not talking about the pronunciation mark, no - the punctuation mark either.

句 - 我们不是谈论发音记， 不 - 符号。

[David] It's weird, it's like the Bermuda Triangle of punctuation marks.

- [大卫] 这很奇怪，就像符号百慕大三角。

It's a punctuation mark that looks like this: " ; " .

这是一个符号，看起来像这样：“;”。

But first, let’s look at one of the most basic English punctuation marks.

但首先， 让我们看一下最基本英语符号之一。

It's a very popular punctuation mark in universities, and academic writing, and so on.

这是大学和学术写作等中非常流行符号。

A dash is a longer line " –" and is only used as a punctuation mark.

破折号是较长一行“–”，仅用作符号。

And to be persuasive, you need to be understood. And these little punctuation marks helped the speaker to deliver their text more effectively.

要想说服别人，你得先让别人明白你意思。这些小符号帮助说话人更有效地传递信息。

When we read the examples in this lesson, we will say the punctuation marks out loud so listeners can understand where they belong.

当我们阅读这节课例子时，我们将大声读出符号，以便听众了解它们位置。

There are still more types of punctuation to learn about, but I hope this helped you to understand how to use basic punctuation marks.

还有很多种类符号需要学习，但是我希望今天课程有帮助大家理解如何使用基础符号。

I hope you can tell me about the difference between punctuation marks such as the semicolon, the colon and the comma and between round brackets and square brackets.

我希望你能告诉我分号、冒号和逗号之间区别，以及圆括号和方括号之间区别。

That means that you are intelligent and that you've got a good understanding of English grammar because you can use these two key punctuation marks.

这意味着你很聪明，而且你对英语语法有很好理解，因为你会使用这两个关键符号。

An alternative approach, championed by Bruce Schneier, a security guru, is to turn a sentence into a password, taking the first letter of each word and substituting numbers and punctuation marks where possible.

网络安全领域专家Bruce Schneier 支持另一种可供选择方法，既把一个句子变成一个密码，具体做法是取出句中每个单词第一个字母，然后尽可能地替换句中数字和符号。