And emoticons can express but also widely misunderstood.

表情符号可以表达，但也被广泛误解。

That is the bench of understanding a text of emoticons.

这是理解一组表情符号文本的基础。

Before emoji, emoticons had let you express how you felt by using combinations of punctuation marks.

在 emoji 出现之前，表情符号可以让你通过使用标点符号的组合来表达你的感受。

Between 2004 and 2018 there's been a surge of emoticons and now emojis in the courtroom.

2004 年至 2018 年间，颜文字（作为证据）大量出现在法庭上，现在又轮到了表情符号。

That's right. When we use emoticons—facial expressions made out of keyboard characters—we can signpost the feelings we intend.

没错。当我们使用表情符号——用键盘上的标点组成的符号时，我们就可以表达出所要表达的情感。

Therefore she fired me and later admitted that the appearance of the emoticon was useless because she misunderstood it.

因此她将我解雇并随后承认说，那个表情符号的出现毫无意义，因为她误解了它（的含义）。

I think it's why we have emoticons.

我想这就是我们有表情符号的原因。

Also, do not use emoticons and colored fonts in business emails.

此外，不要在商务电子邮件中使用表情符号和彩色字体。

And remember, emoticons are only appropriate for informal emails.

请记住，表情符号仅适用于非正式电子邮件。

Be very careful with emoticons. They aren't appropriate for formal emails.

• 小心使用表情符号。它们不适合用于正式电子邮件。

Yeah and I hope you guys come up with better abbreviations and more interesting emoticons and happy faces where tongues sticking out.

对，而且我希望你们能想一些更好的缩写、更有趣的表情符号、跟开心吐舌的表情啊。

Researchers study things like the use of emoticons, rules such as turn-taking, and language used in different communication channels.

研究人员还研究用户怎么用表情包，怎么轮换发言，以及用不同沟通渠道时，用词有什么区别。

So, an emoticon are these little smiley faces and so forth that you find on websites, especially blogs and e-mail.

因此，表情符号就是您在网站上找到的这些小笑脸等等， 尤其是博客和电子邮件。

As texts are never accompanied by all the non-verbal communications and the gestures, the only way to read texts is through emoticons and punctuations.

由于文本永远不会伴随着所有的非语言交流和手势，所以阅读文本的唯一方法就是通过表情符号和标点符号。

Do you want a sad crying face emoticon?

你想要一个悲伤的哭脸表情吗？

Let's clear one thing up first – there are emojis and emoticons. The latter are little images made using normal keys on a keyboard.

让我们先弄清楚一件事——有表情符号和表情符号。 后者是使用键盘上的普通键制作的小图像。

And, granted, most of them included angry emoticons, but, uh, I was actually thinking of going over to Blair's now to try to talk to her.

尽管我发的大多是一些愤怒表情符号，但是 我在想要不去布莱尔家看看去和她谈谈。

In case you’ve been hiding in a basement somewhere -- or you’ve just never moved past emoticons -- emojis are the tiny pictures people use to enhance their emails, texts, and online posts.

如果你一直躲在地下室的某个地方——或者你从来没有离开过表情符号——表情符号是人们用来增强他们的电子邮件、文本和在线帖子的小图片。

The cute, small pictographs, once known by the less catchy name of 'emoticons', have come a long way since first appearing on the internet as the pixelated colour emoji first created in 1999 by Japanese artist, Shigetaka Kurita.

这些可爱的小象形文字曾以不太好听的“表情符号” 这个名字而为人所知，自 1999 年由日本艺术家栗田穰孝 (Shigetaka Kurita) 首次创作像素化彩色表情符号首次出现在互联网上以来， 已经取得了长足的进步。