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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Western donors had hoped that international cyclone relief would crack open the door to broader co-operation on aid, and perhaps a dash of glasnost. There is little sign that it did.

西方的捐赠者希望，国际上对热带风暴的救灾物资能使得救援方面的合作更为广阔，或许能使社会问题得以公开讨论，但事与愿违。

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Other buttons like the dash (-) and the plus sign (+), to collapse or expand Windows, were so small that they, too, became nearly invisible.

用来缩小或放大窗口的“-”“+”按钮同样很小，我们几乎看不见。

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