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idiomatic

/id-ee-uh-mat-ik/US // ˌɪd i əˈmæt ɪk //

习惯用语,习语,习惯性的,习惯性用语

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : peculiar to or characteristic of a particular language or dialect: idiomatic French.
    • : containing or using many idioms.
    • : having a distinct style or character, especially in the arts: idiomatic writing; an idiomatic composer.

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Examples

  • Full-time residents, who call themselves Yoopers, use the same name to refer to their idiomatic English.

  • In the meantime, she continues to speak with idiomatic brusqueness.

  • “There was no absolute word in the Russian idiomatic language,” he said.

  • Moreover, by the time he reaches college it is too late to teach him even common, idiomatic expressiveness.

  • All the truly idiomatic and national phrases are kept, and all others successively picked out and thrown away.

  • Numberless compound idiomatic phrases have also been given a place, in each case under the head of the significant word.

  • Thats idiomatic French, and means a good deal that you dont understand; I always use it to gals, especially when theyre pretty.

  • It was filled with jokes, beneath which were German notes explaining any difficult or idiomatic words and phrases.