- 1nB2/ˈhaɪfən/連字號
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.
示範例句 · Example
Our teacher told us to put a hyphen between "well" and "known" in "well-known".
逐字我們的老師告訴我們在「well」和「known」之間放一個連字號，在「well-known」裡面。
hyphen 就是英文裡那條短短的「-」。它的工作可以想成「一座小橋」：把兩邊接起來，讓讀的人當成一個東西看。所以 well-known、twenty-one、part-time 中間都有 hyphen，兩個字合起來變成一個意思。同一座橋也用在一個字太長、要在行尾斷開的時候，把上下兩半接住。hyphen 跟 dash（破折號 — ）長得像但工作不同：hyphen 短，是把東西接起來；dash 長，是把句子切開、加一段補充。
常見搭配
use a hyphen
使用連字號
to write or print the mark (-)
Use a hyphen when you join two words to describe something, like "a five-year-old boy".
put a hyphen between A and B
在兩者之間加連字號
to write the mark between two words or parts
Put a hyphen between the two words so people read them as one idea.
a hyphen in the word
某個字裡的連字號
the mark appearing inside a particular word
We were never sure whether there was a hyphen in the word "co-ordination".
with a hyphen / without a hyphen
有加／沒加連字號
written with, or without, the mark
You can write "co-operate" with a hyphen or "cooperate" without a hyphen.
a soft hyphen
軟連字號（只在斷行時才出現）
a hyphen that only appears when a word has to break at the end of a line
The program inserts a soft hyphen only where a word breaks at the end of a line.
separated by a hyphen
以連字號隔開
with the mark placed between two parts
The two dates should be separated by a hyphen.
意思相近
用法接近
dashcommaapostrophecolonsemicolonpunctuation mark
core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.
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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/
- 1
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.
- 2
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.
- 3
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:
- 4
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/
- 1
datedTo separate or punctuate with a hyphen; to hyphenate.
hyphenconj/ˈhaɪ̯.f(ə̯)n̩/
- 1
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.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。