复合形容词

复合形容词
复合形容词
以形容词为中心
1.n+a: a dust-free room;debt-free gamblers,check-free
products,bullet-proof glasse,water-proof sunsreen,fire-proof masks,basis-solid students,high-IQ-inclusive clubs,anxiety-prone passagers,tone-deaf
2.a+a: bitter-sweet, deaf-mute;
3.being+a: smoking-hot, freezing-cold,soaking-wet;
4.adv+a: over-cautious;almost-perceptible sounds
以动词分词为中心
1.n+being: ocean-going, summer-flowering, time-saving;
justice-seeking lawyers,money-pursuing girls,life-resuming zombies, war-waging presidents,campaign-launching revolutionaries,smog-spreading cities,water-running taps,hair-growing medicine(anti-hair-falling shampoo),a ten-thousand-traveling journey，mind-blowing findings
2.n+done: heart-broken/felt, poverty-stricken, hen-pecked;feet-chained
slaves,head-chopped kings,entrance-blocked caves,budget-tightened governments,edge-sharpened fences,skin-peeled-off animals,sword-laid-down robbers,belt-loosely-tied men,baby-faced stars
3.a/adv+being: ever-lasting, familiar-sounding;never-ending complaints,lightly-and-rapidly-walking men,nationwide-spreading diseases,long-standing rules
4.a/adv+done:far-fetched,well-balanced;over-
used/stressed/estimated,n ever-heard myths,never-discovered facts,never-missed shooting,seldom-visited places,fully-
stretched legs,hardly-reached agreements,barely-escaped collisions,long-anticipated/expected/awaited programs,over-made-up girls
以名词为中心
1.n+ned:chicken-hearted;youth-centered gatherings,eagle-eyed men,vanilla-flavored ice-creams
2.a+ned: short-sighted;sharp-edged gadgets,good-natured boys,maximum-sized pizzas
3.a+n:long-distance calls, white-collar officers,half-tragedy endings,
4.v+n:break-neck,tell-tale signs,a discover-truth journey,a relinquish-custody paper,an unleash-imagination activity,do-it-now people(do-it-nowers),a get-nowhere discussion,a come-to-all-of-us ending
介词短语为中心
1.in-your-face taunts
out-of-sorts decisions,up-in-the-air proposals,at-huge-risk missions,in-favor-of-Obama voters,an across-entire-city marathon,on-the-same-level rivals,,on-the-surface-level investigation,under-way construction,under-suspicion culprits,under-table conspiracies,on-site supervision
句式复合词
1. devil-may-care（不顾一切的），dog-eat-dog（狗咬狗的）;a one-false-move-upsets-all step,an it-never-rains-but-pours epoch,a time-is-on-your-side match,a wife-jumps-ship man
其他
triple-check sth
a 50-50 chance
run-away trains
a 3000-feet drop
a two-man team
catch-up courses
pro-Soviet parties
six-inches-thick now
flag-in-hand pioneers
a high-school dropout
sex-change opertaions
non-expression people
word-by-mouth legends
a feet-on-two-boats man
a blusher-on-cheeks girl
a laptop-on-the-knee girl
an in-and-out relationship
an all-out-carried-out policy
non-red-tape working styles
a high-heaven-soaring flight ground-breaking discoveries
a 6-month-mother-to-be girl
a get-up-straight-away person parents-in-company freshmen non-preliminary conversations
a make-full-use-of-time scientist hurtful-and-humiliating infidelity a triumph-over-everything society a thousand-time-under-test metal a full-case-load-carrying old doctor a head-down-to-the-chest little girl
a secret-hidden-in-the-closet family
a long-hair-on-the-shoulder beauty
a revolt-bursting-in- full-stride period
a go-to-gym-three-times-a-week man
an always-blow-his-own-trumpet guy
a phantom-haunting-over-years house
a bracelet-wearing-on-the-left-wrist girl
a via-cunningly-circuitous-route approach
a pull-out-handle-equipped compact case
a more-like-a-gnome-than-a-scholar person
a lift-supplying-instead-of drag-creating word
sluttishly-behaving-around-the-house young men
a circumference-of-thighs-reduced-by-3-inches woman four-wheeled/four-wheels-attached/four-wheels-on suitcase 仿句
原：今日一别，后会有期。

自创：今日一聚，后会无期。

原：一寸光阴一寸金。

自创：一平方米一寸金。

原：拳不离手，曲不离口。

自创：烟不离手，酒不离口。

原：不怕学不成，只怕心不诚。

自创：不怕瘦不下，只怕嘴不紧。

原：Politeness costs nothing, but gives you everything
自创：
Vanity costs everything, but gives you nothing Working hard costs everything, and gives you everything
原：Where there is a will, there is a way.
自创：
Where there is repression, there is resistance.
Where there are efforts, there are rewards.
Where there is a promise, there is one to break.
原:Sow nothing, reap nothing.
自创：Have nothing, lose nothing.
Love all,love none.
原：Kings have long arms; Justice has long arms.
自创：
Caritas has long arms.
Confrontation has long arms.
原：However long the night,the dawn will break.
自创：However perfect the lie,the truth will come out.
However hard the rock,the hole will dig out.
原：Do one thing at a time,and do well.
自创：Marry one person at a time, and marry forever.
原：Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
自创：Whatever needs inquiring at all needs inquiring thoroughly. Whoever is worth loving at all is worth loving eternally.
原：Some secrects are meant to stay secret.
自创：Humans are meant to stay humane.
The past is meant to stay in the past.
造句
S+V
Branching out a new path in this death-zone-by-nickname forest is no wonder asking for the moon with a view to the current shortage of any advanced navigating equipments.
This 12-feet-tall meat-eaten dinosaur in spite of its overwhelming dominance over any other living creature still died out as a result of the natural disaster.
ABC,as the first published magazine In San Diego,featuring in its immese coverage of the most up-to-date breakthroughs occuring to science and technology,went out of business in 1978.
S+V+P
To gamble on a one-night-rise-to-fame rather than ten-year tears of blood for this young man of humble birth appeared a pie in the sky.
All those on-the-tip-of-my-tongue moments either stirring up my anxiety or getting on my nerves are all past tense for me now.
Why this always tread-on-eggshells politician toughly cut to the chase in place of beating around the bush today still remains a mystery.
S+V+O
This two-faced bastard had no other choice but to lay his cards on the table after months of severe tortures and finally owned up to spilling the beans during the second world war.
Those firmly convinced of plenty more fish in the sea never cease to toy with girls at an young age yet never fail to end up dying along and lonely.
A long-expected climate change report aiming at applying modern
high-tech in the recycling of natural resources instead of mere restrictions of environmental-damaging fuels has been released recently. The law abided by all the members of a speech community usually has little chances of any major alternation considering its unique property of stability.
S+V+O+OC
This little story about how the primitive tribe used to go extra miles in the military training and held their fort like a child’s play successfully made these cocky-haughty young minds hold their tongues.
Janey’s never getting around to give a reasonable explanation for her absence from the work leaves the HR no choice but to fire her.
S+V+DO+IO
This transcontinental program encouraging the worldwide-
corporation in the disposal of non-reversible garbage will definitely gives people a fresh perspective towards this public-concerned issue.
People’s inclination to brush over the bits and pieces in the course of a mathematical reasoning sometimes may result in their going around in circles for years.。