英语斜体的使用
When to Italicize; Using Italics and Underlining
Emphasis
When you want to emphasize a certain word or phrase in a sentence. (She was the only girl in the class who got 100% on the exam.)
Titles of Works
Books: (Elements of Style, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Jane Eyre)
Magazines: (Time magazine, Newsweek, Cosmpolitan)
Newspapers: (USA Today, Wall Street Journal, San Francisco Chronicle)
In writing the titles of newspapers, do not italicize the word the, even when it is part of the title (the New York Times), and do not italicize the name of the city in which the newspaper is published unless that name is part of the title: the Hartford Courant, but the London Times.
Plays: (Romeo & Juliet, Waiting for Godot, Uncle Vanya)
Movies: (Batman, Casablanca, Twilight)
Works of Art: (Monet’s Waterlilies, Van Gogh’s Starry Starry Night, Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa)
TV/radio programs: (American Idol, BBC’s Woman’s Hour, The Simpsons)
CD/Album: (Michael Jackson’s Thriller album, Parachutes by Cold Play)
Journals and Magazines: Time, U.S. News and World Report, Crazyhorse, Georgia Review
Long Musical Pieces: Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite (but “Waltz of the Flowers”), Schubert’s Winterreise (but “Ave Maria”). For musical pieces named by type, number and key — Mozart’s Divertimento in D major, Barber’s Cello Sonata Op. 6 — we use neither italics nor quotation marks.
Cinema: Slingblade, Shine, The Invisible Man
Artworks: the Venus de Milo, Whistler’s The Artist’s Mother
Famous Speeches: Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, Washington’s Second Inaugural Address (when that is the actual title of the speech)
Long Poems (that are extensive enough to appear in a book by themselves): Longfellow’s Evangeline, Milton’s Paradise Lost, Whitman’s Leaves of Grass
Pamphlets: New Developments in AIDS Research
We do not italicize the titles of long sacred works: the Bible, the Koran. Nor do we italicize the titles of books of the Bible: Genesis, Revelation, 1 Corinthians.
Foreign Words/Technical Terms/Unfamiliar Words
When we are writing a text in one particular language (i.e. English) and want to introduce a foreign word or phrase, we tend to italicize the foreign words. (The word for cat in Spanish is gato.)
Names of Vehicles
Challenger
Titanic
Orient Express
U.S.S. Eisenhower (Don’t italicize the U.S.S.)
H.M.S. Pinafore (Don’t italicize the H.M.S. when you’re talking about the ship. If you’re talking about the light opera, then it’s part of the title, H.M.S. Pinafore.)
We don’t italicize names of vehicles that are brand names: Ford Explorer, Corvette, Nissan Pathfinder, Boeing 747.
Words as Reproduced Sounds
Grrr! went the bear.
His head hit the stairs, kathunk!