idiom / ˈɪd i əm /

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idiom 的定义

n. 名词 noun
  1. an expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituent elements, as kick the bucket or hang one's head, or from the general grammatical rules of a language, as the table round for the round table, and that is not a constituent of a larger expression of like characteristics.
  2. a language, dialect, or style of speaking peculiar to a people.
  3. a construction or expression of one language whose parts correspond to elements in another language but whose total structure or meaning is not matched in the same way in the second language.
  4. the peculiar character or genius of a language.
  5. a distinct style or character, in music, art, etc.: the idiom of Bach.

idiom 近义词

n. 名词 noun

manner of speaking, turn of phrase

更多idiom例句

  1. Most people believe the idiom “time flies when you’re having fun,” and research has, indeed, shown that when time seems to pass by quickly, people assume the task must have been engaging and enjoyable.
  2. The commercial, which advertises the brand’s seltzer lemonade, runs with the “when life gives you lemons” idiom, riffing off 2020 being a “lemon of a year.”
  3. First of all, remember that idioms or colloquialisms may make sense in one place but not in another, even if the same language is spoken.
  4. Later she observed that one of the most skilled in this idiom was the journalist Dorothy Parker.
  5. Are some jobs, to use the standard idiom, “inherently governmental?”
  6. Is ‘idiom’ enough to defend to the modern reader sentences like this?
  7. Additionally impressive is that an Australian can write so convincingly in the idiom of a country so different from her own.
  8. Yet he seemed interested only in recasting GOP concepts in his own idiom.
  9. His musical idiom was growing richer, and music had become to him what poetry had been at Votinsk.
  10. Lange thinks these lines corrupt; but I believe the idiom is correct.
  11. For the hospitality of England can scarcely be translated with full flavor into any other idiom.
  12. The occasional use of the imperfect is almost his only Gaelic idiom.
  13. Accent, idiom, vocabulary give a new turn to the ancient speech.