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A small book of ready-made sentences in a foreign language, mainly for . You look up a situation — the hotel, a taxi, a meal — and copy the line. It does not teach you to build new sentences; it hands you the lines people actually say there. Older carried a paper phrasebook; phone apps now do the same job, but we still call the paper one a phrasebook. People also say “phrasebook English” for stiff, copied sentences that are correct but do not sound like a real person talking. As an adjective, phrasebook just points to that kind of ready-made language.
會話手冊、旅遊常用語手冊
原始詞典資料4 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。
phrasebooknoun/ˈfɹeɪzbʊk/
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A book containing common phrases in two or more languages, used to learn a foreign language.
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A usually pocket-sized book consisting of everyday expressions and vocabulary in two languages and intended for travellers who wish to communicate with locals while in other countries.
- He knows, ‘Hello’ in eighteen languages / ‘I love you’ in only one / By the time he's got his phrasebook / The chance is usually gone
phrasebookadj/ˈfɹeɪzbʊk/
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Of or pertaining to a phrasebook.
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Of one's fluency of a language, limited or deficient.
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。