hyphen

英 [ˈhaɪfn]

美 [ˈhaɪfn]

n.  连字符

复数：hyphens　过去式：hyphened　第三人称单数：hyphens　

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BNC.24827 / COCA.27394

牛津词典

noun

• 连字符
  the mark ( - ) used to join two words together to make a new one, as in back-up , or to show that a word has been divided between the end of one line and the beginning of the next

柯林斯词典

• 连字符;连字号
  Ahyphenis the punctuation sign used to join words together to make a compound, as in 'left-handed'. People also use a hyphen to show that the rest of a word is on the next line.

英英释义

noun

• a punctuation mark (-) used between parts of a compound word or between the syllables of a word when the word is divided at the end of a line of text
  Synonym:dash

verb

• divide or connect with a hyphen
  1. hyphenate these words and names
  Synonym:hyphenate

双语例句

• A locale name is constructed from a two-letter lowercase ISO country code, optionally followed by an underscore or hyphen and a two-letter uppercase ISO language code.
  语言环境名称是这样组成的：小写的两字母ISO语言代码，可选地，后面可以跟下划线或连字符以及大写的两字母ISO国家或地区代码。
• Orthographically, a compound can be written as one word with or without a hyphen in between, or as two separate words.
  从正字法上看，一个复合词在拼写的时候中间可以带有也可以不带有连字符，或者写成两个单独分开的单词。
• You might also see variations that use a hyphen between the language and country code, or that put the country code is in lowercase.
  也有可能看见在语言和国家代码之间使用连字元，或者把国家代码写成小写形式的变体。
• As an implementor of an XML processor, we might define a special date datatype that conforms to the format of day-month-year, but uses various separators, not just a hyphen (-).
  作为XML处理器的实现者，我们可以定义一个特殊的date数据类型，该类型遵循“日-月-年”的格式，也可以使用其他分隔符，不一定要使用连字符（-）。
• They also may use both names without the hyphen, using their family name as a middle name.
  这些姓之间也可不用连字符，而是把娘家姓当作中间名。
• The dash is longer than the hyphen.
  破折号比连字符稍长点。
• Select the Text format for number entries that might include special characters, such as hyphen in phone numbers or postal codes.
  为可能含有特殊字符（如电话号码或邮政编码中的连字符）的数字项选择文本格式。
• You can break this down structure even further, marking the punctuation ( the period, comma, and hyphen) or breaking the zip code into two pieces.
  您可以进一步细化这个结构，标记标点（句点、逗号和短横线）或将邮政编码分为两部分。
• Within the brackets, you can refer to a range of characters by using-( hyphen), as in [ a-z] or all lowercase letters.
  在方括号中，通过使用-（连字符），比如[a-z]或者所有的小写字母，您可以引用某个范围的字符。
• In this environment, a login shell was differentiated from other shell instances ( such as those running a shell script) by name: The process name of each login shell was prefixed with a hyphen, as in-bash.
  在这种环境中，登录Shell和其他的Shell实例（比如那些运行Shell脚本的Shell）通过名字相互区别：每个登录Shell的进程名字都以一个连字符作为前缀，如-bash。