Inverted commas
n. 引号
📖 牛津释义
inverted commas
(Brit) quotation-marks, ie ` ' or `` '' 引号（｀ ＇或 " " ）. =>App 3 见附录3.
🧩 词语组成解析
a. 倒转的, 反向的
n. 逗号( comma的复数形式 )
🗣️ 情景例句
Can we meet halfway on this?
我们是否能各让一半？
Nature, time, and patience are the three great physicians.
自然，时间和耐心，是三大伟大的医生。
This shows how long it was before we deemed it necessary to make sure that all our children could share in the knowledge accumulated by the'happy few' during the past centuries.
这说明，经过了多么漫长的时间之后，我们才认识到，有必要确保我们的孩子享有多少个世纪以来由‘少数幸运者’所积累起来的知识。