英 [freɪz] 美 [freɪz]
n. 短语，词组；惯用语，习语；乐句；（芭蕾）舞句
v. 用……方式表达，以……措辞表达；把（乐曲）分成短句
复数phrases
第三人称单数phrases
现在分词phrasing
过去式phrased
过去分词phrased
phrase /freɪz/ CET4 TEM4 [ phrasing phrased phrases ]
可数名词 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。”
可数名词 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。
及物动词 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。
习语 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。
to coin a phrase→seecoin
an expression consisting of one or more words forming a grammatical constituent of a sentence
a short musical passage
同义词： musical phrase
an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up
同义词： idiom / idiomatic expression / phrasal idiom / set phrase
dance movements that are linked in a single choreographic sequence
put into words or an expression
同义词： give voice / formulate / word / articulate
divide, combine, or mark into phrases
phrase a musical passage
短语-引用次数：495
The first chapter is about the research of lexical phrase.
第一章概述对词汇短语的研究过程。
参考来源EFL写作教学中的词块法研究
表达-引用次数：63
It is also used to search for the right phrase and continue the opinion.
Well也可以用来表示对恰当表达方式的思索和观点的继续。
惯用语-引用次数：37
We didn’t work at it until recent few years. It wasn’t long before the term "idiomatic phrase" came into being.
我们对惯用语的研究还是近几十年的事情,甚至“惯用语”这个术语出现还没有很长时间。
参考来源现代汉语惯用语研究
词组
片语
乐句-引用次数：12
There are five degrees from the former phrase to the latter phrase of the melody. Meanwhile the latter phrase is the strict or free imitation of the five-degree lower former phrase.
旋律前后乐句相距五度，并且后乐句是前乐句低五度或严格或自由的模仿。
参考来源鄂伦春族民歌赞达仁及其演唱研究
把…分成短句：
短句；乐节
短语
词组（PHRASE）是担任各种句子成分的基本语言单位。句子不是词的序列，而是词组的序列。
乐段内部又可分为若干 乐句 ,因此 乐句 ( Phrase )是乐段的次一级单位.有关乐段的形式是多样的,但本章所涉及的乐段类型是最典型的和最简单的形式.
理论版) 水语的基本短语类型 短语(phrase)是由两个或两个以上的词组合起来构成的语言单位,短语也叫做词组。句子是用词和词组构成的、能够表达一个完整意思的语言单位。
...f comparison; animal words; phrases; Spanish-Chinese translation; possibility [gap=136]关键词: 比喻; 动物名词; 习惯用语; 西译汉; 可能性 ...
phrasal 短语的；习惯用语的，成语的
phraseology 措辞；语法；词组
phrasing 措辞；分节法
phrasing 用短语描述；把…分成短句（phrase的ing形式）
We bought a Danish phrase book.
我买了一本丹麦常用语手册。
Who coined the phrase 'desktop publishing'?
谁创造了desktop publishing（桌面出版）这个词组？
The Italian phrase can be rendered as 'I did my best'.
这个意大利语的短语可以译为“我尽力了”。
People began hearing the phrase by the grapevine to describe false as well as true reports from the battlefield.
VOA : special.2009.02.22
Moore is quoting here in that phrase "business documents and school-books," as she tells us, from Tolstoy, a prose writer.
穆尔在那个短语里引用了这句,“商业文书和教科书“，正如她告诉我们的，引用来自托尔斯泰，俄国小说家。
现代诗歌课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课
So what it might be would be a phrase that has struck one as if for the first time.
因此这种支点也许是,某人刚刚想到的一个短语。
人性课程节选 : 普林斯顿公开课
Some writers believe that the phrase would soon have disappeared were it not for the American Civil War.
VOA : special.2009.02.22
The phrase to be left holding the bag is as widely used as the expression to let the cat out of the bag.
VOA : special.2009.01.25
Murphy was heard muttering his famous phrase and his smart project manager wrote it down.
In most cases, a computerised voice will then pronounce the translated word or phrase.
His catch-phrase was: give Russia 20 years of peace, and you will not recognise it.