single quote:单引号(标点符号 **' '**)。常用于:
/ˈsɪŋɡəl kwoʊt/
Please put the title in single quotes.
请把标题用单引号括起来。
In British publishing, single quotes are often preferred for primary quotations, while double quotes are reserved for quotations within quotations.
在英国出版规范中,单引号常用于主要引用,而双引号通常留给“引号内的引号”。
single 来自拉丁语 singulus(“一个的、单个的”);quote 与“引用、引述”有关,源自中世纪拉丁语 quotare(“标记、编号、注明”)。合在一起,single quote 字面意思就是“单个的引用符号”,即相对于 double quotes(双引号) 的那一种引号形式。