phrase是什么意思

详细释义

• 0 a group of words that is part of, rather than the whole of, a sentence -- 片語

• 1 a short group of words that are often used together and have a particular meaning -- 說法；用語；警句

  • We are governed, in Lord Hailsham's famous phrase, by an "elective dictatorship". 引用一下海爾什勳爵的名言，我們被「選舉出來的獨裁者」統治著。

• 2 a small group of notes forming a unit of a tune -- 樂句；樂節

• 3 to express something with a particular choice of words -- 用…方式表達，以…措辭表達

  • The declaration was carefully/cleverly/tactfully, etc. phrased. 宣言措辭謹慎／巧妙／圓滑等。