A punctuation mark (-) used in writing and printing.

一种标点符号，用于写作或打字中。

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Although the hyphen does look quite a bit like a dash or minus sign, it is a punctuation mark.

尽管连字符看上去很像破折号或减号，但他还是一个符点符号而非数字符号。

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Then he asked me to add in this sentence in a punctuation mark, so that the meaning of the sentence has changed.

然后他说要我在这句话中加一个标点符号，使这个句子的意思改变了。

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That's pretty good 'cause now, I can pretty much cover my American keyboard pretty effectively both upper case, lower case, and a whole bunch of punctuation. For other languages as in aside, there are other encoding schemes when there are more characters.

那是相当不错的，它可以包含整个美式键盘中的字符,包括大小写字母和一连串标点,对于其他语言，当涉及更多字符时就会有其他的编码体系。

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As a punctuation-neutral substitute, it has in mind a name nobody here seems to recognize: Willard Mountain.

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You can say that it's sort of a punctuation point on a history.

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Across the fields and beyond a humming slash of motorway, the enormous bamboo stalk of Taipei 101, the second-tallest building in the world, stood like a punctuation mark.

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