“分号纹身”英语怎么说

　　摘要：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?你知道怎么用英语表达吗?

　　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."

　　分号纹身的潮流最初由“分号项目”发起，鼓励人们在身上画上或是纹上“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。

　　“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，你就是作家，语句则是你的生命。”

　　【讲解】

　　文中的semicolon tattoo就是“分号纹身”的意思，其中semicolon表示“分号”，前缀semi-含有“半;不完全地”之义，又如：semifinal(半决赛)，semicircle(半圆);colon则代表“冒号”，常见符号还有：comma (逗号)，hyphen (连字符)，dash(破折号)等。

　　tattoo作名词，意为“纹身，刺青”，如：I've decided to get my tattoo removed. (我已经决定去掉我身上的纹身。)