Wadman! --For nothing can make this chapter go off with spirit but an apostrophe to thee--but my heart tells me, that in such a crisis an apostrophe is but an insult in disguise, and ere I would offer one to a woman in distress--let the chapter go to the devil; provided any damn'd critic in keeping will be but at the trouble to take it with him.英文原著 · 《The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy》
Cruncher, looking out of bed for a boot. `You're at it agin, are you? After hailing the morn with this second salutation, he threw a boot at the woman as a third. It was a very muddy boot, and may introduce the odd circumstance connected with Mr. Cruncher's domestic economy, that, whereas he often came home after banking hours with clean boots, he often got up next morning to find the same boots covered with clay. `What,' said Mr. Cruncher, varying his apostrophe after missing his mark--'what are you, up to, Aggerawayter?'
`I was only saying my prayers. `Saying your prayers!英文原著 · 《A TALE OF TWO CITIES》
A sudden change, too, had come over the "ex-brave." He assumed a portentously solemn look; and when he spoke to me again, his speech was ornamented by no oaths, enforced by no finger-snapping, enlivened by no apostrophes or exclamations.英文原著 · 《AFTER DARK》
Lomaque's eyes grew weaker than ever, and winked incessantly as he uttered this apostrophe. At the end, he threw up his hands again, and blinked inquiringly all round him, in mute appeal to universal nature.英文原著 · 《AFTER DARK》
"Y-O-U-apostrophe-R-E" means "you are." "Y-O-U-R" means "your." I can't believe I even thought of getting back together with you.美剧 · 《Friends》
And by the way? Y-O-U, apostrophe R-E means, "you are." Y-O-U-R means "your." I can't believe I thought of getting back together with you.美剧 · 《Friends》
And the ballot left out the apostrophe, as you can see right there.美剧 · 《The Good Wife》