A punctuation mark (-) used in writing and printing.

一种标点符号，用于写作或打字中。

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You need to put a punctuation mark at the end of every sentence.

你得在每个句子的结尾打上标点符号。

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Although the hyphen does look quite a bit like a dash or minus sign, it is a punctuation mark.

尽管连字符看上去很像破折号或减号，但他还是一个符点符号而非数字符号。

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Across the fields and beyond a humming slash of motorway, the enormous bamboo stalk of Taipei 101, the second-tallest building in the world, stood like a punctuation mark.

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In one particular extract, it says the paper omitted a punctuation mark, so that it appeared that the Koran was described with an obscene word, when this was not, in fact, the case.

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Another issue is that a lot of times, we'd miss one character or accidentally highlight a nearby punctuation mark, which makes the translation a tad slower as it needs to talk to the server.

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