"He formulated his concerns to the board of trustees"
"phrase a musical passage"
1.惯用法;成语;习语;警句
Aphrase 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.
e.g. He used aphrase 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。”
e.g. ...the Americanphrase 'laying an egg' meaning to fail at something.
意思是“完全失败”的美国习语 laying an egg
2.词组;短语
Aphrase is a small group of words which forms a unit, either on its own or within a sentence.
phrase在线翻译
e.g. It is impossible to hypnotise someone simply by saying a particular word orphrase.
不可能仅通过说某个词或短语就能把人催眠。
3.用语言表达;叙述
If youphrase something in a particular way, you express it in words in that way.
e.g. I would have phrased it quite differently...
我本可以把它表述得全然不同。
e.g. The speech was carefully phrased...
该演讲措词严谨。
4.表达方式;措词
If someone has a particularturn of phrase, they have a particular way of expressing themselves in words.
e.g. Rose's stories weren't bad; she had a nice turn ofphrase.
罗斯的故事写得不错,她的语言表达形象生动。
e.g. ...Schwarzkopf's distinctive turn ofphrase.
施瓦茨科普夫与众不同的行文风格
1. 片语:笔者参加多次测验后,发觉题型一直在变化,就以阅读里字汇的考法,除了同义字(synonym)、片语(phrase)及代名词(pronoun)传统的考题之外,现在又出现「解释或定义题」及反义字(antonym).