喜樂美語

核心畫面

A handful of words that travel together as one lump of meaning — shorter than a sentence, bigger than a word. Say it and you hear one breath, one shape. That shape is the whole word: music borrows it for a run of notes that hangs together, and the verb is what you do when you choose the shape rather than just the words.

可以想成：幾個字黏在一起、當成一團意思一起走——比單字大，比句子小。念出來像一口氣、一個弧線。整個字抓的就是這個「一…更多收起可以想成：幾個字黏在一起、當成一團意思一起走——比單字大，比句子小。念出來像一口氣、一個弧線。整個字抓的就是這個「一小段完整的形狀」：音樂借去指一小串聽起來自成一段的音符，而動詞的用法就是「去挑這個形狀」——不只是講出內容，而是決定用什麼樣子把它講出來。

From the picture

一小段音樂

同樣是「一口氣的長度」，只是換成聲音：說話有語句，旋律也有樂句，兩者都是聽得出來的自然斷點。

musical phrase · noun · B1

A short run of notes that forms one complete part of a tune.

樂句

挑話怎麼講

名詞是「話的形狀」，動詞就是去選那個形狀：同一件事，換個講法效果就不一樣。

phrase (word choice) · verb · B1

To say or write something by choosing your words in a particular way.

措辭 / 表達

Also in this word

phrase (expression) · noun · B1

A small group of words that go together and carry a particular meaning.

片語 / 說法

phrase (grammar) · noun · B1

In grammar, a group of words without a main verb that works as one part of a sentence.

片語

原始詞典資料8 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

phrasenoun/ˈfɹeɪ̯z/

  • 1

    A short written or spoken expression.

    • I've made progress, but this is still, in Churchill's phrase, just "the end of the beginning."
  • 2

    grammarhuman-scienceslinguisticsA word or, more commonly, a group of words that functions as a single unit in the syntax of a sentence, always containing an expressed or implied head (the principal word or subgroup, with core importance) and often consisting of a head plus some other elaborating words.

    • Holonyms: clause, sentence; phrasing, phraseology, turn of phrase; phrase-book; document, message; language; communication
    • Meronyms: head, complement, adjunct, supplement, modifier; term, word
  • 3

    entertainmentlifestylemusicA small section of music in a larger piece.

  • 4

    archaicA mode or form of speech; diction; expression.

    • Thou speak'st / In better phrase and matter than thou didst.
    • […] From out a common vein of memory / Sweet household talk, and phrases of the hearth, […]
  • 5

    dancedancinghobbiesA short individual motion forming part of a choreographed dance.

phraseverb/ˈfɹeɪ̯z/

  • 1

    To express (an action, thought or idea) by means of particular words.

    • I wasn't sure how to phrase my condolences without sounding patronising.
    • These suns — for so they phrase 'em.
  • 2

    entertainmentlifestylemusicTo perform (a passage) with a particular phrasing.

  • 3

    entertainmentlifestylemusicTo divide into melodic phrases.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。