1. She reads with a sharp eye for idiom.
    她阅读时以敏锐的目光审视语言的习惯用法。

2. He spoke in the idiom of the New England countryside.
    他讲新英格兰乡下的方言。

1. 成语：我的朋友C总是对我说,他觉得英语里最难的学的是那些短语(phrase)、成语(idiom)和俚语(slang). 他学英语已经很久了,这些年单词记了一大堆,就连托福(TOEFL)词汇,GRE词汇手册几乎都背过了,可是读书读报时遇到一些成语,却还是常常被绊住.

2. idiom

2. 惯用语：.惯用语(idiom)是一种固定的短语,它的意思与组成这个短语的单词的意思没有关系. 短语动词经常有字面上或惯用的意思;.口语(colloquial)是日常生活中使用的非正式语言;俚语(slang)比口语更随意,往往有些低俗,在正式的说话或写作中一般是不用的:

3. 习用语：(4) 选用具体的(specific)词习用语(idiom)是一种固定的搭配,它不可以拆开来加以理解,而应从整体上来理解其意义. 英语中的习用语较为丰富,对它们进行适当和正确的使用,会使得英语作文更加生动,更具有表达力. ?

1. (音乐、舞蹈、建筑的)风格，特色
    A particular idiom is a particular style of something such as music, dance, or architecture.

    e.g. McCartney was also keen to write in a classical idiom, rather than a pop one...
           麦卡特尼也热衷于古典风格而不是通俗风格的创作。
    e.g. It was an old building in the local idiom.
           那是一座具有当地风格的古建筑。

2. 习语;成语
    An idiom is a group of words which have a different meaning when used together from the one they would have if you took the meaning of each word separately.

idiom

    e.g. Proverbs and idioms may become worn with overuse...
           谚语和习语会由于使用过多而变得俗套。
    e.g. She is, in fact, a perfect illustration of the French idiom ''to be comfortable in one''s own skin.''
           实际上，她很好地诠释了“欣然接纳自我”这一法语习语的意思。

3. 方言;土语
    Idiom of a particular kind is the language that people use at a particular time or in a particular place.

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    e.g. And nothing was so irritating as the confident way he used archaic idiom.
           没什么比他使用过时的方言时那种自负的神态更气人的了。
    e.g. ...her command of the Chinese idiom.
           她对汉语方言的掌握

1. the style of a particular artist or school or movement

    e.g. an imaginative orchestral idiom

    Synonym: artistic style

2. a manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language

    Synonym: parlance

3. an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up

    Synonym: idiomatic expressionphrasal idiomset phrasephrase

4. the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people

    e.g. the immigrants spoke an odd dialect of English
           he has a strong German accent
           it has been said that a language is a dialect with an army and navy

    Synonym: dialectaccent