set phrase

英 [ˌset ˈfreɪz]

美 [ˌset ˈfreɪz]

n.  固定词组; 成语

牛津词典

noun

• 固定词组；成语
  a phrase that is always used in the same form
  1. Don't worry about the grammar, just learn this as a set phrase.
     别管语法，只要把这个作为固定词组来学习即可。

英英释义

noun

• an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up
  Synonym:idiomidiomatic expressionphrasal idiomphrase

双语例句

• That's because a pair of Dutch inventors have developed a set of jeans that give a whole new meaning to the phrase laptop.
  近日，两位荷兰发明者最新发明了一款计算机牛仔裤，给膝上型轻便电脑一词赋予了新的意义。
• Hence too when we set some end before us, we say that we'conclude'to do something: a phrase which implies that we were, so to speak, open and accessible to this or that determination.
  因此当我们提出一个目的在前面时，我们又说，我们决定要做某件事，我们从而首先好像把我们看成是开阔的，我们可以接受这一规定或那一规定。
• In this research project, the writer has tagged phrases in one million words-level modern Mongolian corpus and set up modern Mongolian basic phrase bank.
  通过本项研究，我们对100万词级现代蒙古语语料库做了短语标注，建立了现代蒙古语基本短语库。
• We should always learn a new word in the context, for example, a set phrase, a sentence, or even a paragraph or a passage, which can surely help us understand it more deeply.
  我们总是应该在上下文中（比如固定搭配、句子、段落或者短文中）学习新词汇，这样肯定能帮助我们加深理解。
• The set phrase "carrying faggots to put out a fire" is used to mean adopting a wrong method to save a situation and ending up by making it worse.
  成语“抱薪救火”比喻用错误的方法去消灭祸害，结果反而使祸害扩大。
• This has become a set phrase.
  这已成为一个固定词组。
• Did I say a set phrase just now?
  我刚说了一个成语啊？
• The advertising agents often produce clear and witty advertisement words by immitation on set phrase and popular sayings, poems and words of songs and plays.
  人们经常通过对成语与俗语、诗文与名句、歌词与戏文的仿拟，创造表义明确又妙趣横生的广告词。
• The set phrase means that a work of art is depicted very vividly, like the real thing.
  经常会用来形容美术等文艺作品对事物的刻画非常准确，就好像真的一样。
• This set phrase now extensively denotes the disrespectful aims. This story means that a person who has a strong sense of self-respect would rather die of hunger than be despised.
  此故事讲的是一个怀有强烈自尊心的人，宁可饿死也不肯接受人轻视。现在这个成语泛指带有侮辱性的施舍。