Break when a period or full stop is followed by a white space; this is assumed to be the end of a sentence or paragraph.

遇到句号或者后跟空白的停顿时分割，假定为句子或段落的结束。

youdao

Any package in the UML code model with a name that contains period or full stop (.) characters is expanded to a sequence of nested name Spaces to eliminate those periods.

包含句点或结束符(.)字符的名字的UML代码模型中的任意一个包被展开到有一系列嵌套名字的空间，从而消除那些句点。

youdao

After a period of years full of incident we have been compelled to abandon our labours, and to stop short on the road of progress.

经过了几个变化多端的年头，我们不得不搁下我们的工作，在前进的道路上完全停顿下来。

youdao

We are rather entitled to the bolder conclusion the soul can't be destroyed. Full stop.Period.

我们有权得出这个更大胆的结论,灵魂不会毁灭，句号，到此结束。

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