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惯用法；成语；习语；警句 A phrase is a short group of words that people often use as a way of saying something. The meaning of a phrase is often not obvious from the meaning of the individual words in it.
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He used a phrase I hate: 'You have to be cruel to be kind.'
他说了一句我讨厌的话：“要想善良，就得残忍。”
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...the American phrase 'laying an egg' meaning to fail at something.
意思是“完全失败”的美国习语 laying an egg
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词组；短语 A phrase is a small group of words which forms a unit, either on its own or within a sentence.
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It is impossible to hypnotise someone simply by saying a particular word or phrase.
不可能仅通过说某个词或短语就能把人催眠。
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I would have phrased it quite differently...
我本可以把它表述得全然不同。
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The speech was carefully phrased...
该演讲措词严谨。
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They phrased it as a question.
他们用提问的方式来表述它。
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表达方式；措词 If someone has a particular turn of phrase, they have a particular way of expressing themselves in words.
to coin a phrase→see:
coin;
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Rose's stories weren't bad; she had a nice turn of phrase.
罗斯的故事写得不错，她的语言表达形象生动。
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...Schwarzkopf's distinctive turn of phrase.
施瓦茨科普夫与众不同的行文风格
- Noun
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1. an expression forming a grammatical constituent of a sentence but not containing a finite verb
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2. a short musical passage
- synonym： musical phrase
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3. an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up
- synonym： idiom，idiomatic expression，phrasal idiom，set phrase
- Verb
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1. put into words or an expression;
- "He formulated his concerns to the board of trustees"
- synonym： give voice，formulate，word，articulate
体育
- 1.连续交锋过程
计算机
- 1.成语，词组
<名>
- 1.短语
- 1. Cross out this phrase.
- 抹掉这个短语。
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- 2. He was—what is the phrase I'm looking for—not intimately acquainted with his subject.
- 他——我该怎么说呢——对自己的课程很不熟悉。
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- 3. His every phrase is salted with personality.
- 他的一言一语都富有个性。
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- 4. His statement was too general and should have been qualified with phrase "in most cases".
- 他的话太笼统，本应加上“在大多数情况下”加以限制。
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- 5. It was a metaphoric(al) phrase; we didn't really mean that he has green fingers, only that he is good at gardening.
- 它是一个比喻的词组；我们并非说他长了绿手指而是说他擅长园艺技能。
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- 6. She was, in her own memorable phrase, 'a woman without a past'.
- 用她自己的令人记忆深刻的话来说，她“历史清白”。
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- 7. That phrase has come into usage.
- 那个短语已为大家所惯用。
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- 8. That was a picturesque phrase.
- 那是一个形象化的说法。
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- 9. That's exactly the phrase I was looking for.
- 这就是我一直找的那个短语。
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- 10. The phrase is labelled as slang in the dictionary.
- 这个短语在这本字典里被注为俚语。
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- 11. The phrase was caught on and immediately became popular.
- 这个短语被采用后很快就流行了。
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- 12. The trouble was sparked off by an apparently harmless phrase.
- 这场麻烦是由一句明显无恶意的话引起的。
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- 13. This phrase is labelled as an Americanism in this dictionary.
- 这本词典把这个短语称为美国特有的语言现象。
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- 14. This phrase serves as a connecting link between the preceding and the following.
- 这个短语起到了承上启下的作用。
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- 15. We came across a new phrase.
- 我们遇到了一个新成语。
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- 16. You needn't puzzle over every single word or phrase in the book.
- 这本书用不着一字一句地抠。
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