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冒號的用法
冒號表示停頓，其停頓時間比分號長比句號短。它可用逗號，有時也可用句號代替。盡管現(xiàn)在冒號的使用不如50到75年前頻繁，但現(xiàn)在它使用仍很方便，因為它告訴讀者其后仍是對上文進(jìn)一步的陳述。冒號還能產(chǎn)生輕微的戲劇效果。
冒號常用于引出一個詞、短語、或完整的句子（子句）來強(qiáng)調(diào)，舉例解釋，或證明剛才所說過的內(nèi)容。
注意：冒號之后的詞可用大寫也可用小寫字母開頭。如果冒號之后的詞是另一個完整句子的開始，則用大寫字母開頭。反之，如果冒號之后的詞只是句子的一部分，則用小寫字母開頭。
例 May I offer you a suggestion: don’t drive without your seat belts fastened.
The thought continued to perplex him: Where will I go next?
用于引出一連串用來解釋或強(qiáng)調(diào)已敘述過的內(nèi)容。如：
In the basement, he kept some equipment for his experiments: the test tubes, some chemical agents, three sun-lamps, and the drill.
冒號后常為縮排且不用引號、與全文分離的長引文。
President Jiang Zemin enjoys quoting the first line of Lincoln’s Gettysburg address:
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
精典范例
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
--英國作家Oscar Wide
寫作時，切忌這樣寫：
The four major reasons for the landslide victory were: the candidate’s personal popularity, the enthusiastic support of his party, his stand on budget issues, and the general mood of the nation.
這樣用的問題在哪？問題出在冒號用于動詞were之后，你可能在英語為母語的人寫的報紙或流行刊物中見到這類用法，但它在學(xué)術(shù)寫作中不被大學(xué)教師所接受。 在學(xué)術(shù)論文中，主語補足語或直接賓語應(yīng)緊跟在冒號之后。主語補足語的修飾詞(obvious)使原本存在句子中的問題得到解決：冒號不應(yīng)緊跟在動詞之后。
上面例題中，取得壓倒性勝利的四個原因是明顯的：the candidate’s personal popularity, the enthusiastic support of his party, his stand on budget issues, and the general mood of the nation.
冒號的用法
冒號表示停頓，其停頓時間比分號長比句號短。它可用逗號，有時也可用句號代替。盡管現(xiàn)在冒號的使用不如50到75年前頻繁，但現(xiàn)在它使用仍很方便，因為它告訴讀者其后仍是對上文進(jìn)一步的陳述。冒號還能產(chǎn)生輕微的戲劇效果。
冒號常用于引出一個詞、短語、或完整的句子（子句）來強(qiáng)調(diào)，舉例解釋，或證明剛才所說過的內(nèi)容。
注意：冒號之后的詞可用大寫也可用小寫字母開頭。如果冒號之后的詞是另一個完整句子的開始，則用大寫字母開頭。反之，如果冒號之后的詞只是句子的一部分，則用小寫字母開頭。
例 May I offer you a suggestion: don’t drive without your seat belts fastened.
The thought continued to perplex him: Where will I go next?
用于引出一連串用來解釋或強(qiáng)調(diào)已敘述過的內(nèi)容。如：
In the basement, he kept some equipment for his experiments: the test tubes, some chemical agents, three sun-lamps, and the drill.
冒號后常為縮排且不用引號、與全文分離的長引文。
President Jiang Zemin enjoys quoting the first line of Lincoln’s Gettysburg address:
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
精典范例
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
--英國作家Oscar Wide
寫作時，切忌這樣寫：
The four major reasons for the landslide victory were: the candidate’s personal popularity, the enthusiastic support of his party, his stand on budget issues, and the general mood of the nation.
這樣用的問題在哪？問題出在冒號用于動詞were之后，你可能在英語為母語的人寫的報紙或流行刊物中見到這類用法，但它在學(xué)術(shù)寫作中不被大學(xué)教師所接受。 在學(xué)術(shù)論文中，主語補足語或直接賓語應(yīng)緊跟在冒號之后。主語補足語的修飾詞(obvious)使原本存在句子中的問題得到解決：冒號不應(yīng)緊跟在動詞之后。
上面例題中，取得壓倒性勝利的四個原因是明顯的：the candidate’s personal popularity, the enthusiastic support of his party, his stand on budget issues, and the general mood of the nation.