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��接合字一般是由��片�、�名�片�、口�、甚至「自�」字眼而�，多半�做形容�使用(有��名�)。
�者如想知道更多接合字，可��世界周刊第988-989和1373-1375期。下面也是常用的接合字：
stay-the-course:
意思是�力��始�或�持到底(stick to the end)
例如：
Mr. Bush used to rebuff critics of his stay-the-course strategy for his unpopular war in Iraq.
Bush先生�去�然拒��他不得人心而�持到底的伊拉克��策略所做的批�。
(由��片��成，�形容�、修�名�strategy)
Some politicians will want to stay-the-course in Taiwan independence.
一些政客�台��力��始�。
(��stay-the-course是��片�，�一�字看待，也有人不用�字�)
Your stay-the-course efforts in this project will come to realization.
你�������始�的努力，����。
(�形容�、修�名�efforts)
Out-of-the-way:
是指荒僻的、罕�的、不�常的(seldom seen; not often or unusual)
例如：
Mr. A's out-of-the-way remarks on this issue have made some people upset.
A先生�����不得�的��，造成一些人不高�。
(�形容�，修�remarks)
There is an out-of-the-way roadside restaurant near the river.
靠近河�的荒僻路旁有�餐�。
(�形容�，修�名�roadside和restaurant)
Sometimes we can find an out-of-the-way item in a yardsale.
我�有�能在庭院���找到不�常的�西。
(�形容�，修�item)
texting-while-driving:
指�����子短�(send message electronically during driving)
例如：
The state's texting-while-driving law is to be enforced.
州政府�����送�子�息的法律�要加�。
(�形容�，修�law)
Texting-while-driving appears quite common among teenagers.
青少年�����子短�，似乎很平常。
(�名�用)
Stop the texting-while-driving habit; it is risky.
���不可��子短�，那很危�。
(�形容�、修�habit)
on-again-off-again:
����地(not continuously)
例如：
After three years of an on-again-off-again romance, she decided to marry him.
三年�����的��後，她�定嫁�她。
(�形容�，修�romance)
The on-again-off-again relationship between China and U.S. seems to work out fine.
中美���好��的��，�展得似乎�可以。
Lucy does not know if she should break up her on-again-off-again life with her boyfriend.
Lucy不知是否要�����生活在一起的男友分�。
be-all-and-end-all:
意思是最�目�或��(final goal)
例如：
Money is not the be-all-and-end-all of my existence.
金�不是我生存的最�目�。(�名�用)
The be-all-and-end-all method to solve the problem is to negotiate and compromise with each other.
解���的最�方法是彼此的磋商�妥�。
(�形容�，修�method)
What will be the be-all-and-end-all to the Taiwan issue?
台���的��又是什�呢？
bricks-and-mortar:
brick是��，mortar是砂�，也就是指房子等建�物。
(building of any kind)
例如：
All his money has been spent on bricks-and-mortar.
他的所有�都花在房�上。(�名�用)
Some shoppers try to get off the Internet and (get) into bricks-and-mortar stores.
有些��者想��路上�到真正的��商店。
(�形容�，修�stores)
Mr. A seems to be a bricks-and-mortar politician.
A先生似乎是位著重房地�方面的政客。
Read more: 世界新��-北美�文新�、�商�� - 《�用英文》再�接合字 一
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