phrase
[NOUN, VERB]
phrases
1. [C 可数名词] 惯用语 , 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.
双语例句
例：He used a phrase I hate: 'You have to be cruel to be kind.'
他用了一句我讨厌的习语：“要想善良，就得残忍。”
2. [C 可数名词] 短语 , 词组
A phrase is a small group of words that forms a unit, either on its own or within a sentence.
双语例句
例：A writer spends many hours going over and over a scene – changing a phrase here, a word there.
这位作家花了好几个小时反复润色一个场景—这儿改个短语，那儿改个单词。
NOUN. 名词
turn of phrase
1. 表述方式
If someone has a particular turn of phrase, they have a particular way of expressing themselves in words.
双语例句
例：Schwarzkopf's distinctive turn of phrase.
施瓦茨科普夫与众不同的表述方式。
PHRASE. 习语
phrases , phrasing , phrased
1. [T 及物动词] 用言语表达
If you phrase something in a particular way, you express it in words in that way.
双语例句
例：I would have phrased it quite differently.
我本可以用完全不同的话来表述。
例：The speech was carefully phrased.
这篇讲话措辞严谨。
VERB. 动词
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