| 单词 | to phrase it |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto phrase it 2. transitive. To put into words, esp. in distinctive language; to word in a particular way. Frequently as to phrase it: to express (something) in a particular way, to ‘put it’ in the manner specified. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > express in a specific style [verb (transitive)] > express in particular terms layc1330 setc1460 couch1529 terma1535 phrase1556 put1571 shape1589 word1602 1556 N. Grimald in tr. Cicero Bks. Duties vi If it be phrased wt wrasted or farrefetched fourmes of speeche. 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 55/2 Clement..who..was adioyned with Paule..dyd phrase them [i.e. ‘Epistle to the Hebrues’] in his style, and maner. 1625 R. Montagu Appello Cæsarem 64 So Ezechial phraseth it. a1652 J. Smith Select Disc. (1660) vi. xiii. 274 The LXX..have much varied the manner of phrasing things from the Original. 1701 N. Rowe Ambitious Step-mother iii. ii Nor can I phrase my speech in apt Expression, To tell how much I love and honour you. 1771 S. Johnson Let. 7 July (1994) V. 29 He has had as he phrased it a matter of four wives. 1849 G. E. Jewsbury Let. 29 Mar. in Sel. Lett. to J. W. Carlyle (1892) 287 I am ‘bone lazy’, as my nurse used to phrase it. 1879 H. George Progress & Poverty (1883) x. v. 388 The free spirit of the Mosaic law..inspired their poets with strains that yet phrase the highest exaltations of thought. 1921 J. Galsworthy To Let i. i. 6 Little change had Time wrought in the ‘warmest’ of young Forsytes, as the last of the old Forsytes..would have phrased it. 1984 A. N. Wilson Hilaire Belloc i. viii. 199 He phrased his accusations in hysterical anti-Jewish language. < as lemmas |
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