em dash

基本解釋

Em-dash (—): You're stuck up and pretentious.
破折號(hào)：你愛(ài)炫耀、自命不凡。
Dash: An one em rule to mark a pause in a sentence.
破折號(hào)：在句子內(nèi)表示停頓的長(zhǎng)度。
Most fonts are equipped with at least two dashes: an en dash (–, –, which is the width of a lowercase “n”) and an em dash (—, —, which is the width of a lowercase “m”).
大多數(shù)字體都擁有二種不同的橫線破折號(hào)：en橫線(–, –,相當(dāng)于小寫的“n”的寬度) 以及一個(gè)em橫線（—, —,寬度相當(dāng)于小寫的“m”）。

All that time and energy spent agonizing over every em-dash and semicolon, for naught!
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a long dash (= the symbol - ), used especially when typing on a computer or in printing to separate parts of a sentence