| 单词 | apostrophe |
| 释义 | apostrophe 1 ENTRIES FOUND: apostrophe (noun) apostrophe /əˈpʰɑːstrəfi/ noun plural apostrophes apostrophe /əˈpʰɑːstrəfi/ noun plural apostrophes Learner's definition of APOSTROPHE [count] 1 : the punctuation mark ʼ used to show that letters or numbers are missing (as when “did” and “not” are combined into “didn't” or when the date 1776 is written as '76)撇号，省字符（’） In the contraction “can't,” an apostrophe replaces two of the letters in the word “cannot.”在缩约词can't中，撇号代替了单词cannot中的两个字母。 2 : the punctuation mark ʼ used to show the possessive form of a noun (as in “Lee's book” or “the tree's leaves”)撇号，名词所有格符号（’） 3 : the punctuation mark ʼ used to show the plural forms of letters or numbers (as in “dot your i's and cross your t's” or “in the 1960's”)撇号，复数符号（’） |
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