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2014托福考试写作标点使用(三)
标点符号看似不起眼，但是它们却也是评分的标准之一，切不可忽视。
四 冒号 Colon
用在一个完整的句子结束，用于引出清单、长引语和解释。
1 List:
例如
The store will close at noon on the following dates: November 26, December 24, and December 31.
2 Long Quotation:
In his book Life Lines, Forrest Church maintains that people should cry more: “Life is difficult. Some people pretend that it is not, that we should be able to breeze through. Yet hardly a week passes in which most of us don’t have something worth crying about. ”
3 Explanation:
Here’s a temporary solution to a dripping faucet: Tie a string to it, and let the drops slide down the string to the sink.
五 分号 Semicolon
1 用来分隔两个单独的句子，有时可以看作是句号
例如
Lonnie heard a noise and looked out the window; the only thing there was his reflection.
He checked on the new baby every five minutes; he was afraid something would happen to her.
Lizards become sluggish at night; they need the sun’s warmth to maintain an active body temperature.
The large dog was growling at me; there were white bubbles of foam around its mouth.
We knew a power failure had occurred; all the clocks in the building were forty-seven minutes slow.
2 用来分隔列举的个体(在个体内部使用逗号的时候)。
例如：
Maya’s children are named Melantha, which means “bl...