exocentric construction

exocentric construction

• 【语法学】外向结构(整个结构与该结构中的任何成分功能都不同，如 in the garden 具有副词功能，但其中任一个成分都不具有副词功能)[参较 endocentric construction]

• insertion meter
• growth step
• catsup
• solar-heated
• think nothing （或little） of
• syngas
• kiss sth↔away
• across the board
• lunch out
• bring down the curtain on
• linen
• YUC
• provide for sb
• enteric fever
• Burberries
• Roman arch
• national ascendancy
• passeress
• hold sth↔down
• polymer gasoline
• exiled
• devolver
• autolysed
• innocent victims / bystanders / people etc
• logics
• DNA shearing
• lamenesses
• visagiste
• unravel
• Farnsworth dissector tube
• rostrums
• potentiometer
• brood parasitism
• have all one's eggs in one basket
• nero antico
• canyon dune
• scotodinia
• sail through
• sonographs
• scrabble for
• land accretion
• MacNeil-Lehrer Report
• schoolmistresses
• fix your attention / eyes / mind etc on sb / sth
• iraser
• tail skid
• thanatism
• decimal rheostat
• illuder
• ephesuss
• biocide
• deng xiaopings
• fumitory families
• cardias
• Hypoprothrombinemias
• heterodyne whistle
• what's the good of...? / what good is...?
• decastylar
• fasciolopsiasis
• pratted
• hake
• officialization
• keep sth↔back
• endothelial cell
• swell-and-swale topography
• hand baggage
• trailer truck
• mark fundamental
• double-knits
• demountable pack
• wauk
• dry-clean
• messiahships
• core-halo galaxies
• multipara
• monotrematous
• caravan
• East Asian
• with an open hand
• anamorphized
• munt
• flaming arc
• recordless
• acarophilous
• ruderal
• wind acceptance
• passionlessness
• userer
• ACLU
• purported
• haboobs
• moony
• the Inquisition
• go on record
• pie charts
• telengiscope
• motherland
• pluck down
• dudleys
• feeps