phrase: [16] Greek phrásis ‘speech, way of speaking’ was a derivative of the verb phrázein ‘show, explain’. English adopted it via Latin phrasis as phrasis, whose plural phrases eventually gave rise to a new singular phrase. From the same source comes periphrasis [16]. => periphrasis
phrase (n.)
1520s, "manner or style of expression," also "group of words with some unity," from Late Latin phrasis "diction," from Greek phrasis "speech, way of speaking, enunciation, phraseology," from phrazein "to express, tell," from phrazesthai "to consider," from PIE *gwhren- "to think" (see frenetic). The musical sense of "short passage" is from 1789.
phrase (v.)
"to put into a phrase," 1560s; see phrase (n.). Related: Phrased; phrasing.
雙語例句
1. A phrase from the conference floor set my mind wandering.
會上發言者的一句話讓我思緒飄遠。
來自柯林斯例句
2. The phrase was not meant to be taken seriously.
此話不必當真。
來自柯林斯例句
3. Rose's stories weren't bad; she had a nice turn of phrase.
羅斯的故事寫得不錯，她的語言表達形象生動。
來自柯林斯例句
4. He would sign off each week with the catch-phrase, "I'llsee thee!"
每周結束節目時他都會說那句經典的話，“下周見！”。
來自柯林斯例句
5. There is almost no phrase so simple that he cannot mangle it.