apostrophes
n. 省略符号
例句
The only complication comes from names that themselves contain one or more apostrophes.
人名中惟一的复杂情况是人名本身可能包含一个或多个撇号。
Apostrophes that once distinguished between "its" and "it's" seem quaint and arbitrary.
曾经区分“its”和“its”中的省略符看上去奇怪且含义不清。
Most apostrophes were removed from American maps in 1891 by the Board on Geographic Names.
大部分撇号在1891年版美国地图中已被美国地名委员会除去。