喜樂美語
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    /ˈhaɪfən/

    a short line (-) that you write or print to join two words into one, or to join the two parts of a word when it is split at the end of a line.

    連字號

    複數 hyphens

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

    這一義的完整解析還沒打開。訂閱後可以看到例句怎麼拆、常跟哪些字一起出現， 以及容易跟它搞混的字。

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核心畫面

You can think of it as a tiny bridge laid flat between two things: a short mark that holds words together, or holds one word's two halves together when a line runs out of room.

一座躺平的小橋：一條短短的線 (-)，架在兩個東西中間，把它們牽在一起。它不像句號那樣結束什麼，也不像逗號那樣把東西…更多收起一座躺平的小橋：一條短短的線 (-)，架在兩個東西中間，把它們牽在一起。它不像句號那樣結束什麼，也不像逗號那樣把東西切開——它做的事情剛好相反，是「接住」。兩個各自獨立的字被它一牽，就變成一個意思單位 (well-known, twenty-one)；一個字寫到行末寫不下了，它也在斷開的地方伸出來，等於在跟讀者說：「還沒完，下一行接著看。」所以無論哪一種用法，畫面都是同一個：一小段線，負責讓分開的東西保持相連。

原始詞典資料6 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

hyphennoun/ˈhaɪ̯.f(ə̯)n̩/

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    The symbol "‐", typically used to join two or more words to form a compound term, or to indicate that a word has been split at the end of a line.

    • As the proud owner of my very own hyphen in a lovingly crafted surname, I have an especial soft spot for this most confusing of punctuation marks.
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    Something which links two things of greater significance than itself.

    • Cunliffe and Karunanayake (2013) developed Fine's notion to introduce potential hyphen spaces that are deeply implicated and reciprocally influential in relationships between researchers and the researched.
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    Something which links two things of greater significance than itself.

    • The hyphens were added, joining the structures into one building, which now measures just over two hundred feet long.
    • Construction details for the hyphens, or "connecting wings" as they were called by the contractors, were included in the contractors' specifications, as follows:
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    Someone who belongs to a marginalized subgroup, and can therefore described by a hyphenated term, such as "German-American", "female-academic", etc.

    • Tab has been kept on quite a number of members who rapturously applauded when that part of the message in which the hyphens were attacked was read by the President.
    • Sign language interpreters fascinate me because their cultural space, "working the hyphens" as Michelle Fine (1994) would call it, and performing in the kind of hybrid third space that Homi Bhabha (1994) has written about resonates often with my own "hard-of-hearing" doubly hyphenated existence in both deaf and hearing worlds.

hyphenverb/ˈhaɪ̯.f(ə̯)n̩/

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    datedTo separate or punctuate with a hyphen; to hyphenate.

hyphenconj/ˈhaɪ̯.f(ə̯)n̩/

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    Used to emphasize the coordinating function usually indicated by the punctuation "-".

    • You are sitting at the wrong table, if I may be so bold, among the misguided who believe in the mass murder of mentalities, otherwise known as the liberal arts hyphen vocational training hyphen education.
    • Ax was now a Hollywood hyphenated man. An actor hyphen director hyphen writer.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。