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

他们说短信的出现逗号、冒号和省略号。

The colon is two dots, one over the other.

冒号是两个点，一个在上，一个在下。

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

冒号前的句子应该是一个独立的分句。

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

些最终被称为逗号、冒号和句号。

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

所以，就在个级别，我们以添加一个 else 块，所以 else 冒号。

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

然后，在“看见从未见过的景象”一行后我们用冒号。

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

当第二个分句解释第一个分句时，也以在两个独立分句之间使用冒号。

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

因此，当冒号以式使用时，它使读者热切地期待接下来的内容。

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

在商务信函中，问候语后应使用冒号。在私人信件中，在问候语后加上逗号。

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

短一点的信息用逗号，长一点的用冒号，完整的句子用句号。

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

然后我们在第二部分， 在冒号之后给出具体的细节。

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

在冒号之后， 以使用小写字母或大写字母。

A colon is 58 and a closed parenthesis is 41.

冒号是 58，右括号是 41。

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

注意那个冒号；我们稍后会讨论个。

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

一个冒号作为标点符号是由两个点组成的，一个在另一个上面。

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

破折号以用在原本要用冒号的地。

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

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

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

应该是冒号，一个简洁而不带个人色彩的冒号。

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

它会将其格式化为：我的观点是，冒号，第一，个。

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

蛋糕，冒号，太棒，句号，所以，逗号，太棒。