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英语新词:分号纹身有什么特殊含义?

  近日,许多人在社交媒体上Po出自己身上的“分号纹身”的图片,你知道这一潮流背后有何含义吗?
          The trend of semicolon tattoos was started by ProjectSemicolon. It
encourages people to draw (or tattoo) semicolonson their bodies as a way of
presenting hope and love to thosestruggling with depression, anxiety, suicide,
self-harm and otherforms of mental illness.
          分号纹身的潮流最初由“分号项目”发起,鼓励人们在身上画或是纹上“分号”,借此向那些正与抑郁、焦虑、自杀倾向、自残等精神疾病抗争的人们传达希望和关爱的讯息。
          Project Semicolon’s website explains the idea behind the tattoo: “A
semicolon is used when anauthor could’ve chosen to end their sentence, but chose
not to. The author is you and thesentence is your life.”
          “分号项目”的官方网站解释了分号纹身背后的理念:“作家在可以结束语句的情况下,却选择不划下句点,这时就需要用到分号。现在,你是作家,语句则是你的生命。”
       


          People who suffer from mental illness all over the world are now tattooing
the mark as a reminderof their struggle, victory, and survival.
          如今,世界各地患有精神疾病的人们将分号纹到身上,以此纪念自己的抗争、胜利和幸存。
          
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