1. She phrased her refusal politely.
    她婉言谢绝了。

2. phrase的解释

2. I phrased my request very carefully.
    我小心翼翼地说出我的请求。

3. The passage is badly phrased.
    这段话措词很糟。

1. Try to learn by heart these English words and phrases.
    努力把这些英语单字和词组记住。

2. The speaker certainly has a way with a phrase.
    这位演讲者无疑善于辞令。

3. We have had enough of phrases.
    我们已经听够了废话。

1. 片语：笔者参加多次测验后,发觉题型一直在变化,就以阅读里字汇的考法,除了同义字(synonym)、片语(phrase)及代名词(pronoun)传统的考题之外,现在又出现「解释或定义题」及反义字(antonym).

1. 惯用法；成语；习语；警句
    A phrase is a short group of words that people often use as a way of saying something. The meaning of a phrase is often not obvious from the meaning of the individual words in it.

    e.g. He used a phrase I hate: ''You have to be cruel to be kind.''
           他说了一句我讨厌的话：“要想善良，就得残忍。”
    e.g. ...the American phrase ''laying an egg'' meaning to fail at something.
           意思是“完全失败”的美国习语 laying an egg

2. 词组；短语
    A phrase is a small group of words which forms a unit, either on its own or within a sentence.

phrase在线翻译

    e.g. It is impossible to hypnotise someone simply by saying a particular word or phrase.
           不可能仅通过说某个词或短语就能把人催眠。

3. 用语言表达；叙述
    If you phrase something in a particular way, you express it in words in that way.

    e.g. I would have phrased it quite differently...
           我本可以把它表述得全然不同。
    e.g. The speech was carefully phrased...
           该演讲措词严谨。

4. 表达方式；措词
    If someone has a particular turn of phrase, they have a particular way of expressing themselves in words.

    e.g. Rose''s stories weren''t bad; she had a nice turn of phrase.
           罗斯的故事写得不错，她的语言表达形象生动。
    e.g. ...Schwarzkopf''s distinctive turn of phrase.
           施瓦茨科普夫与众不同的行文风格

1. dance movements that are linked in a single choreographic sequence

2. an expression consisting of one or more words forming a grammatical constituent of a sentence

3. a short musical passage

    Synonym: musical phrase

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

    Synonym: idiomidiomatic expressionphrasal idiomset phrase

1. divide, combine, or mark into phrases

    e.g. phrase a musical passage

2. put into words or an expression

    e.g. He formulated his concerns to the board of trustees

    Synonym: give voiceformulatewordarticulate