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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（编辑：何莹莹）