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

即使是以英语为母语人，在写英语时也会遇到使用这些标点符号难题。

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.

在 emoji 出现之前，表情符号可以让你通过使用标点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.

标点符号和其他如空格和缩进能帮助读者理解文章组织结构。

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

如你所见，这符号所在位置会改变整意思。

Robots with the size of punctuation marks can one day be used to move single cells or capture bacteria.

标点符号大小机器人有一天会被用来移动单细胞或捕捉细菌。

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标点符号。尽管这些术语本意是指停顿而非标点本身？

[Voiceover] So this is a superhero punctuation mark.

- [画外音] 所以这是一个超级英雄标点符号。

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

点 - 我们不是在谈论发音标记， 不 - 标点符号。

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

- [大卫] 这很奇怪，就像标点符号百慕大三角。

Ask the student what punctuation mark comes at the end of both sentences.

问生这两个子结尾标点符号是什麽。

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

这是一个标点符号，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标点符号之一。

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

这是大和术写作等中非常流行标点符号。

A colon, as a punctuation mark, is two dots, one on top of the other.

冒号作为标点符号，是两个点，一个在另一个之上。

Do you remember what kind of punctuation mark comes at the end of a question?

你记得问题结尾标点符号是什麽吗?

A sentence begins with a capital letter and ends with a punctuation mark.

子以大写字母开头, 以标点符号结尾。

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

破折号是较长一行“–”，仅用作标点符号。

But in between are these four other fun and useful punctuation marks.

但在这之间是另外四个有趣且有用标点符号。