They say that the emergence of text messaging is killing off commas, colons and apostrophes.

他们说短信出现扼杀了逗、冒和省略。

The colon is two dots, one over the other.

冒是两个点，一个在上，一个在下。

The part of the sentence before the colon should be an independent clause.

冒句子应该是一个独立分句。

These were eventually called the comma, colon, and periodos.

这些最终被称为逗、冒和句。

So, right at this level we can add an else block, so else colon.

所以，就在这个级别，我们以添加一个 else 块，所以 else 冒。

Then, we have a use the colon and saw what I never had seen.

然后，在“看见从未见过景象”这一行后我们用了冒。

You can also use a colon between two independent clauses when the second one explains the first.

个分句解释一个分句时，也以在两个独立分句之间使用冒。

So, when the colon is used in this way, it makes the reader eagerly anticipate what comes next.

因此，冒以这种方式使用时，它使读者热切地期待接下来内容。

Punctuation is a little different: in business letters, you should use a colon after the greeting.

在商务信函中，问候语后应使用冒。在私人信件中，在问候语后加上逗。

A short unit of text was a comma, a longer unit was a colon, and a complete sentence was a periodos.

短一点信息用逗，长一点用冒，完整句子用句。

Then we give specific details in the second part, after the colon.

然后我们在部分， 在冒之后给出具体细节。

After a colon, it's possible to use a small letter or a capital letter.

在冒之后， 以使用小写字母或大写字母。

A colon is 58 and a closed parenthesis is 41.

冒是 58，右括是 41。

Spot the colon; we'll talk about that in a moment.

注意那个冒；我们稍后会讨论这个。

A colon, as a punctuation mark, is two dots, one on top of the other.

一个冒作为标点符是由两个点组成，一个在另一个上面。

A dash can be used where you would otherwise use a colon.

破折以用在原本要用冒地方。

And she's like, dude, that was a keyboard error.

她就说：“老兄，那是个键盘错误。原本应该是一个冒，一个挺正式、不带感情色彩冒。”

It was supposed to be a colon, a nice impersonal colon.

应该是冒，一个简洁而不带个人色彩冒。

It formats it where it says, my opinion is this, colon, number one, this.

它会将其格式化为：我观点是，冒，一，这个。

Cake, colon, so great, period, so, comma, so great.

蛋糕，冒，太棒了，句，所以，逗，太棒了。