Punctuation marks and other things like spaces and indents help the reader understand the structure and organization of writing.

标点符号和其他如空格和缩进能帮助读者理解文章的组织结构。

The seat goes back into the wall where it is washed and blow-dried.

使用马桶会缩进墙里。

Because they can't fully pull into the shell to protect themselves.

因它们无法完全缩进壳里保护自己。

The silver sides of the dog costume bellowsed in and out.

狗服装的银色侧边如风箱般缩进又突出。

I do not clam up. - You do. You clam.

我才不会缩进龟壳 -你会的 真的会。

It looked as though Uncle Vernon was bursting with any number of unpleasant retorts, but he merely shrank back into the cushions with Aunt Petunia and Dudley and said nothing, keeping his small piggy eyes on Dumbledore's wand.

弗农姨父似乎忍不住想说几句难听的话作，但他只是跟佩妮姨妈和达力一起缩进沙发垫子里，一声不吭，一双小小的猪眼睛紧盯着邓布利多的魔杖。

But if time ran out, those spaces would go empty, giving rise to the modern practice of indenting the beginnings of paragraphs.

但如果时间不够，这些空间就会空着，于是形成了现代段落首行缩进的做法。

Then it draws its body into the shell, and plasters up the opening, leaving just a little hole to breathe through.

, 身体缩进外壳之中, 用粘液开口封闭起来, 只留下一个小孔进行呼吸。

He bought our tickets, then turned me toward the dance floor. I cringed against his arm and dragged my feet.

他买了我们两个的票，然让我转向舞池。我缩进了他的怀抱，拖着脚走着。

A monkey runs for the trees. Birds take flight. A turtle sticks its head back into its shell.

猴子会爬上树。鸟儿会飞向空中。乌龟会把头缩进壳里。

Sea turtles can't pull their heads and limbs into their shells like land turtles. Land turtles can.

海龟不能像陆龟那样头和四肢缩进壳里。陆龟是可以的。

And graceful little Alice pulled back her lips in a horrific grimace and let loose with a guttural snarl that had me cowering against the seat in terror.

优雅的小巧的爱丽丝，蜷曲起她的嘴唇，作出一个狰狞的鬼脸，从喉咙里吼出一声咆哮。我吓得缩进了座位了。

When you're starting a new paragraph, the best thing to do is just skip a line between each paragraph or an indent, like I'm doing now, it doesn't really matter.

当你开始一个新的段落时，最好的做法是在每个段落之间空一行或缩进，就像我现在这样， 其实没什么区别。

She felt herself shrink into her hood, hating him.

她感到自己缩进了兜帽里，恨着他。

So space is used, indentation I should say, is used as part of the language.

所以空格被使用，我应该说，缩进是语言的一部分。

The other board members sink even lower in their chairs.

其他董事会成员更深地缩进椅子里。

And we also have this wall that drags in a couple of inches.

我们还拥有这面墙，它向内缩进了几英寸。

Mr. Jaggers's eyes retired a little deeper into his head when I handed him the tablets, but he presently handed them over to Wemmick, with instructions to draw the check for his signature.

当我把那两块石板递给贾格斯先生时，他的眼睛微微缩进了脑袋一点，但他很快就石板交给了温米克，指示他开出支票以便签字。

Things that seemed to come naturally to others, like meeting new people and speaking in groups, scared me, made me want to shrink into a tiny dot somewhere quiet and dark.

那些对别人来说似乎轻而易举的事情，比如结识新朋友和在众人面前发言，却让我感到恐惧， 只想缩进某个安静黑暗的小角落里， 变得微不足道。

So when Turtle got it, he just pulled his head in, pulled his legs in, and he just rolled down that mountain till he got down to the bottom.

于是，当乌龟拿到它时，他立刻缩进头， 收起腿，就这样一路滚下山， 直到抵达山脚。