摘要：許多人在社交媒體上Po出自己身上的“分號紋身”的圖片，你知道這一潮流背后有何含義嗎?你知道怎么用英語表達(dá)嗎?

　　The trend of semicolon tattoos was started by Project Semicolon. It encourages people to draw (or tattoo) semicolons on their bodies as a way of presenting hope and love to those struggling with depression, anxiety, suicide, self-harm and other forms of mental illness.

　　Project Semicolon's website explains the idea behind the tattoo: "A semicolon is used when an author could have chosen to end their sentence, but chose not to. The author is you and the sentence is your life."

　　分號紋身的潮流最初由“分號項(xiàng)目”發(fā)起，鼓勵人們在身上畫上或是紋上“分號”，借此向那些正與抑郁、焦慮、自殺傾向、自殘等精神疾病抗?fàn)幍娜藗儌鬟_(dá)希望和關(guān)愛的訊息。

　　“分號項(xiàng)目”的官方網(wǎng)站解釋了分號紋身背后的理念：“作家在可以結(jié)束語句的情況下，卻選擇不劃下句點(diǎn)，這時就需要用到分號?，F(xiàn)在，你就是作家，語句則是你的生命。”

　　【講解】

　　文中的semicolon tattoo就是“分號紋身”的意思，其中semicolon表示“分號”，前綴semi-含有“半;不完全地”之義，又如：semifinal(半決賽)，semicircle(半圓);colon則代表“冒號”，常見符號還有：comma (逗號)，hyphen (連字符)，dash(破折號)等。

　　tattoo作名詞，意為“紋身，刺青”，如：I've decided to get my tattoo removed. (我已經(jīng)決定去掉我身上的紋身。)