punctuated是什么意思？

punctuated

• v. （在文字中）加标点符号，加标点( punctuate的过去式和过去分词 )，不时打断某事物；

例句

• His speech was punctuated by catcalls. 演讲不时给噓声打断。
• a silence punctuated only by the occasional sniff from the children 只有偶尔被孩子们吸鼻子的声音打破的寂静
• The professor punctuated his lecture with a few well - chosen jokes. 教授在讲演中不时插入几个适当的笑话.
• The audience punctuated his speech by outbursts of applause. 听众不时以阵阵掌声打断他的讲话.
• Her speech was punctuated by bursts of applause. 她的讲演不时被阵阵掌声打断。
• The silence of the night was punctuated by the distant rumble of traffic. 夜晚的宁静不时被远处车辆的隆隆声打断。
• The silence of the night was punctuated by the distant rumble of traffic... 夜晚的寂静被远处车流的隆隆声打破。
• ...after a morning punctuated by regular volleys of gunfire... 过了枪声阵阵的早上之后
• ...an author who writes in a lurid lingo, freely punctuated with crude expletives. 文笔间充斥着低俗的暗语和随兴插入的粗话的作者

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• VERB
  不时打断
  If an activity or situation is punctuated by particular things, it is interrupted by them at intervals.
  例句
  The silence of the night was punctuated by the distant rumble of traffic. 夜晚的宁静不时被远处车辆的隆隆声打断。