phrase

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1. N-COUNT 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. 惯用语; 警句
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. N-COUNT A phrase is a small group of words that forms a unit, either on its own or within a sentence. 短语; 词组
A writer spends many hours going over and over a scene—changing a phrase here, a word there. 作家花许多个小时反复润色一个场景—这儿改个短语，那儿改个单词。
3. V-T If you phrase something in a particular way, you express it in words in that way. 用言语表达
I would have phrased it quite differently. 我则会用完全不同的话来表达它。
The speech was carefully phrased. 这篇讲话措辞谨慎。
4. PHRASE If someone has a particular turn of phrase, they have a particular way of expressing themselves in words. 表述方式
...Schwarzkopf's distinctive turn of phrase. …施瓦茨科普夫与众不同的表述方式。
5. to coin a phrase→see coin

an adverbial phrase
an adjectival phrase
The phrase "a not unfamiliar situation " is an example of a double negative .
The phrase "a hard frost " is a collocation .
In grammar , an adjunct is an adverb or adverbial phrase that gives extra information in a sentence .