phrases

英 [ˈfreɪzɪz]

美 [ˈfreɪzɪz]

n. 短语; 词组; 成语; 习语; 惯用法; 警句; 乐句; 乐节
v. (以某种方式)表达，措辞，推敲; 划分乐句，分乐节(尤指为奏乐或歌唱)
phrase的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

N-COUNT 惯用法；成语；习语；警句
Aphraseis 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.
1. 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。”
2. ...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
N-COUNT 词组；短语
Aphraseis a small group of words which forms a unit, either on its own or within a sentence.
1. 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。
VERB 用语言表达；叙述
If youphrasesomething in a particular way, you express it in words in that way.
1. I would have phrased it quite differently...
  我本可以把它表述得全然不同。
2. The speech was carefully phrased...
  该演讲措词严谨。
3. They phrased it as a question.
  他们用提问的方式来表述它。
罗斯的故事写得不错，她的语言表达形象生动。 → see:Rose's stories weren't bad; she had a nice turn of phrase.

Fill in the blanks with the words and phrases you have learnt in this unit.
根据本单元学的单词和短语填空。
Key phrases and sentences Your English is very good.
重要的短语和句子你的非常好。
She says words and phrases like "guy" and "you know" now appear in research papers.
她说诸如“家伙”和“你也清楚”的单词和短语现在出现在研究论文中。
Can write short simple phrases and sentences in documents such as forms, lists and messages.
可以写简单的短语和文件，如表格，列表和消息。
These rules tell us how a sentence is broken down into phrases.
这些规则告诉我们一个句子是怎样分解成若干短语的。
She told him what she thought of him in a few choice phrases.
她用琢磨好的几句精妙的话，向他说出自己对他的看法。
Words and phrases are organized according to the syntactic categories they belong to.
词和词组是根据它们所属的句法类型组织起来的。
She swore at him angrily but he used even choicer phrases in reply.
她气愤地朝他喊，而他却用更精妙的话回答。
Phrases and sentence patterns are also very important.
短语和句型也很重要。
Which words or phrases do you most overuse?
你最为常用的词或词组有哪些？