英文标题单词的首字母何时需要大写？

英文标题单词的首字母何时需要大写？

(2009-11-26 02:41:11)

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标签： 英语学习

分类：英语学习

(The red colored items need special attention.)

1. Capitalize all the names belonging to the specific groups, like countries, person’s name, months, etc..

2. The initial of the beginning word in a title should be always capitalized.

3. All the substantives, a.k.a. function words, should be capitalized.

4. All the articles should be in lower forms. (a, an and the)

5. The empty words which have five or more than five letters should be capitalized, like under, between, etc..

6. The prepositions after verbs helping to make phrases should be capitalized, like the title “Reading In and Writing Out”

7. The empty words which have less than five letters should not be capitalized, like and, from, etc..

 

Chinese version: for good-understanding purpose:

1. 大写所有英语中要求大写的单词。如国家名、人名、月份等等；

2. 标题的第一个单词的第一个字母要大写；

3. 所有实词的首字母要大写；

4. 冠词都不需要大写(a, an, and the)；

5. 字母达到或多于五个的虚词的首字母要大写，如under, between等；

6. 动词后加介词构成词组的，该介词首字母要大写，如文章标题“Reading In and Writing Out”；

7. 字母少于五个的虚词不需要大写，如and, from等等。

 

P.S.:

1. You can capitalize all the letters of all the words in the titles if you want to show some feelings, like angry, urgent, important, attention-needed, etc.. (This point is typically useful in email writing.)

2. The priorities of the lists are from high to low. For instance, in the title of O Henry’s “The Gift of the Magi”, the first “the” is “The”, because it’s the first letter of the sentence, while the second “the” is “the”.