英语语法：214 Title Capitalization Rules
时间：2019-01-02 作者：英语课 分类：英语语法 Grammar Girl
Grammar Girl here.
Today's topic is capitalizing titles.
In an email, Michelle from Manila asked, "Should I capitalize all the first letters of the words in a title or just the first letter of the first word?"
This is one of those style questions. For the Grammar Girl website, I capitalize every letter of the title; but there are many different ways of capitalizing the words in a title, and which one you use is simply a matter of style. So both of the ways you asked about could be correct; it just depends on what your employer 1 or teacher prefers. It's another reason to ask for the style guide!
In addition to capitalizing the first word, and capitalizing all the words, other methods include capitalizing only the nouns 2 (e.g., Grammar Girl loves Tea) and capitalizing every single letter, which on a computer looks like screaming to most people but is still sometimes done for book titles (e.g., GRAMMAR GIRL WOULD KILL FOR SOME ICED TEA). There are even more options 3, so I'll put some links in the transcript 4 to a few good websites that cover all the possibilities. It's kind of a visual 5 thing anyway, so it's good to look at the examples.
Thanks for listening
- My employer deducted ten pounds from my wages this week.我的雇主从我本周的工钱中扣除了十英镑。
- His monthly salary is paid into the bank by his employer.他的月薪由雇主替他存入银行。
- French differs from English in having gender for all nouns. 法语不同于英语，所有的名词都有性。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Nouns join to form compounds. 名词和名词结合构成复合词。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- She considered her options. 她仔细考虑了自己的各种选择。
- We are considering the options available to us in this no-win situation. 在这种取胜无望的情形下，我们在考虑有什么选择。
- A transcript of the tapes was presented as evidence in court.一份录音带的文字本作为证据被呈交法庭。
- They wouldn't let me have a transcript of the interview.他们拒绝给我一份采访的文字整理稿。