in-sist, punc-tu-al, san-dal, de-cline, trans-la-tion。
A stressed close syllable usually takes a consonant with it: ded-i-cate, grat-i-fy, la-bor-a-to-ry, fin-nish.
一个重读闭音节通常带一个辅音字母：ded-i-cate, grat-i-fy, la-bor-a-to-ry, fin-nish。
A consonant plus -le is treated as a syllable: min-gle, peo-ple, no-ble, gig-gle.
一个辅音字母加-le被视为一个音节：min-gle, peo-ple, no-ble, gig-gle.
A single letter cannot be put at the end or at the beginning of a line: e-voke, heart-y.
一个单独的字母不能被放在一行的结尾或开头：e-voke, heart-y.
A two-letter ending should not be put at the beginning of a line: hund-ed, hard-en.
一个双字母的末音节不应被放在行首：hund-ed, hard-en. Divisions that may mislead the reader should be avoided: re-ally, lay-man.
可能误导读者的拆分应避免：re-ally, lay-man。
Words with hyphens should be divided only at the hyphen: broad-minded, broken-hearted.
带连字符的单词应只从连字符处拆分：broad-minded,
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broken-hearted。
Two-syllable words with double consonants in the middle are as a rule divided between the two consonants: strug-gle, lat-ter.
双音节且中间双辅音的单词通常从两个辅音中间被拆分：strug-gle, lat-ter。
Division of proper names should be avoided: Dickens, Paris. 专有名词的拆分应避免：Dickens, Paris。
The last word of a page should not be divided. It should be written on the next page.
页面的最后一个单词不应被拆分，应写在下一页上。 Division of words at the ends of several consecutive lines should be avoided.
在几个连续行结尾处的单词拆分应避免。
Division of words is not always easy. When we are not sure, we should consult a dictionary. In some dictionaries syllabication is indicated by a dot; as in the examples given above, in others by a space: to geth er, sum mer.
单词拆分不总是容易的。当我们不确定时，应该查字典。在一些字典中，音节的划分被通过一个点表示出来；照上述例子的形式，其他字典是通过一个空格来表示：to geth er, sum mer。 Ⅲ. Capitalization 三、字首大写
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Capitalized words are used mainly in three places: proper names, key words in titles, and the first words of sentences.
字首大写的单词主要被用于三个地方：专有名词，标题关键词和句子的第一个单词。
Common words used as parts of proper names are capitalized: 常见词汇被当作专有名词的一部分要首字母大写:
Third Ring Road 三环路 Northwestern university 西北大学 Women’s Day 妇女节 the National Library of Beijing 北京国家图书馆 the Middle Ages 中世纪 the Yellow River 黄河 Words derived from proper names are usually capitalized: 从专有名词衍生出的词汇通常首字母大写：
Marxist 马克思主义者 Darwinism 达尔文主义 Freudian 弗洛伊德学说 Dickensian 狄更斯学者 Taoist 道士 Latinize 拉丁化 Some proper names or their derivatives have become common words:
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一些专有名词或其衍生词已成为常见词汇。
mackintosh ( a raincoat; after Charles Macintosh who invented it )
橡胶雨衣（一种雨衣；以发明者查尔斯·麦金托什名义命名） quixotic(like Don Quixote, hero of the novel of the same name)
不切实际的空想（与同名小说中的男主角堂吉诃德类似） All sentences, including sentence fragments treated as sentences, should begin with capital letters. In this regard, we should pay special attention to the use of capital letters and punctuation in quoted words and sentences.
所有句子，包括当成句子来看的不完全句，应首字母大写。在这点上，我们应该特别关注引用词、句中大写字母和标点符号的专用法。
Miss Johnson said,“When you write an essay, you should pay attention to both content and language.”
约翰逊小姐说，“当你写一篇文章，应该同时注重内容和语言。”
“When you write an essay,” she said,“you should pay attention to both content and language.”
“当你写一篇文章时，”她说，“应该同时注重内容和语言。” “When you write an essay, you should pay attention to both
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content and language,”the teacher said.
“当你写一篇文章时，应该同时注重内容和语言，”老师说。 Miss Johnson advised us to“pay attention to both content and language”when we wrote an essay.
当写一篇文章时，约翰逊小姐建议我们要“同时注重内容和语言”。
These examples show:⑴ the subject and verb of saying before the quotation are followed by a comma;⑵ a complete sentence within quotation marks after the verb of saying begins with a capital letter and ends with a full stop;⑶ if the quoted sentence is broken into two parts and put between two pairs of quotation marks, with the subject and verb of saying placed between them, the first part ends with a comma, the second part does not begin with a capital letter(unless the first word is a proper name), and the whole sentence ends with a full stop;⑷ if the quoted sentence is put before the subject and verb of saying, it ends with a comma, and the verb of saying is followed by a full stop;⑸ if the quoted words are a phrase instead of a complete sentence, the phrase is treated as part of the whole sentence.
这些例子显示：⑴引文前是主语加说话的谓语动词，要在引文前跟逗号；⑵说话的谓语动词后面引出一个完整句，引文首字母要大写，结尾加句点；⑶如果引用句被分为两部分并分别臵于
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