punctuate
圈点
definition
verb
the country's history has been punctuated by coups
occur at intervals throughout (a continuing event or a place).
Journalists at the press conference questioned the feasibility of this project, and The Beijing News punctuates the headline of its article with a question mark.
insert punctuation marks in (text).
translation of 'punctuate'
verb
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example
Similar scenes 'punctuate' a text marked by an assiduous application to the school of Ernest Hemingway, no bad model for any writer, though a notoriously difficult one to imitate.
Detail shots featuring blow-ups of these reflections 'punctuate' the transcript like posters in a man-hunt for the missing photographer.
And the politically correct asides that 'punctuate' the text - theology is outdated, Roman battle descriptions are offensive - are irksome.
At Nili's bedside, she reads her latest novel, extracts of which 'punctuate' the text.
style manuals tell you how to 'punctuate'
they should be shown how to set out and 'punctuate' direct speech
She cleaned his clothes when they were dirty; she worshipped him when he didn't believe he was anything; she edited his writing when he forgot to 'punctuate' .
Three dozen illustrations 'punctuate' Stokes's reissued text of 1934.
Sunken courtyards, which will be colonised, 'punctuate' the building and create pleasantly lit corridors, giving natural light to most practice and teaching rooms.
Rice-Oxley will not only be an authorial presence on stage though, as the accompanying music is a recording of her singing Latin phrases to 'punctuate' the English text.
Commands and injunctions, as I suggested, 'punctuate' the text from the outset.
I have to pick through and revise the text, space it, and 'punctuate' it, to make it readable and suitable for use.
They fumble with sheets of paper and index cards, and mumble and 'punctuate' every five words with ‘um’.
As long as the unipolar moment lasts, then, unconventional attacks like that on the Cole or on the Khobar Towers or the ambush of the Rangers in Mogadishu will continue to 'punctuate' the headlines.
It has not escaped my notice that the older authors like to 'punctuate' with a semicolon where the illocutionary force changes; but that is hardly enough to indicate that we are not dealing with coordination.
Attempts at singing 'punctuate' the record, and though Mos Def's technique is unconventional and amateurish, his efforts still manage to remain somewhat charming.
Martyn Hunter, playing Ben, provided most of the rare comic moments - gleefully crashing on to the stage riding a stolen bicycle, and forever 'punctuating' his speech with a sudden, wicked laugh.
The many short chapters are often 'punctuated' with pregnant little epigrams that underline the plot.
I can still hear his rhythmic South American accent in my mind - soft ‘r's, long vowels - and see him 'punctuating' his words with his hands.
‘Cyrano must build sympathy with the public in the very first scene, when he must fight and sing like a hero,’ he said, 'punctuating' his words with a flourish of an imaginary épée.
Too many people, he continued, 'punctuating' his phrases with his beer, plop themselves down at the end of the day and only get up to haul their large bottoms off to bed.
He strips sound down to its bare essentials: few notes 'punctuated' by frequent silences.
War is sometimes described as long periods of boredom 'punctuated' by short moments of excitement.
The familiar ring of ricocheting bullets 'punctuates' the game's menus.
‘They just want to see me happy,’ they can write about their parents, extended family and community acquaintances, 'punctuating' their e-mail with a smiley-face.
From behind me I could hear the occasional sticky hiss of the spray-starch can, the steamy exhale of the iron, and my mother's voice, 'punctuating' the plot with her snide remarks.
Has Fred Durst really changed the name of his band simply by 'punctuating' it badly?
She answered in a fluently written letter 'punctuated' by dashes about the death of her husband.
The text is liberally 'punctuated' with useful graphs tables and illustrations that help to summarize data and convey key concepts.
Gorgeously filmed and acted, Frida reveals the autobiography in Kahlo's art by occasionally 'punctuating' the action with tableaux based on her paintings.
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