Phrase

(noun.) dance movements that are linked in a single choreographic sequence.

(noun.) an expression consisting of one or more words forming a grammatical constituent of a sentence.

(noun.) a short musical passage.

(verb.) divide, combine, or mark into phrases; 'phrase a musical passage'.

录入:露西

• Mrs. Bulstrode did not wish to go nearer to the facts than in the phrase make some amends; knowing that her husband must understand her. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• She abruptly thrust the letter (as the phrase is) into my face. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• If as a set-off (excuse the legal phrase from a barrister-at-law) you would like to ask Tippins to tea, I pledge myself to make love to her. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The same notion lies imbedded in the phrase: government must serve the people. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• I wasn't ready in myself,' he mimicked her phrase offensively. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• This distinction existed not for him, however, and he was quite satisfied with the English phrase. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• I never understood the phrase 'child of Nature' until I saw Caliphronas, and it is the only way in which he can be explained. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The Germans were doubled up with laughter, hearing his strange droll words, his droll phrases of dialect. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• I know that no end of phrases could be adduced to show the inclusiveness of the word labor. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Oh, I do think these phrases are too absurdly wonderful. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• A certain set of words and phrases, as much belonging to tourists as the College and the Snuggery belonged to the jail, was always in their mouths. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Marx, we are told, could use phrases like democratic miasma. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Often as not they disguise it under heroic phrases and still louder affirmation, just as most of us hide our cowardly submission to monotony under some word like duty, loyalty, conscience. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Once make her certain that the path of duty, as she commonly phrased it, lay in any given direction, and fire and water could not keep her from it. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• They sought (hating war as most of them did) to establish a universal culture, or, as they phrased it, a constant intelligence throughout all civil nations. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• She saw that at all costs she must keep Mrs. Peniston's favour till, as Mrs. Bart would have phrased it, she could stand on her own legs. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.

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