phrases

Many literary academics simply parrot a set of impressive-sounding phrases.

许多文人只是机械地模仿一套听上去令人印象深刻的说法。

We have had enough of phrases.

我们已经听够了废话.

Television sports commentators repeat the same phrases ad nauseam.

电视体育解说员说来说去就是那么几句话,令人厌烦.

While her English was correct, it was peppered with French phrases

她的英语语法上没错，但是里面夹杂着很多法语短语。

She was, in her own favourite phrase, 'a woman without a past'.

用她自己最喜欢的字眼说，她是个“没有不清白过去的女人”。

She thought in both languages, and selected the most apposite phrase from either.

她用两种语言思考，然后从中选择最贴切的一种表达。

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。”

Some phrases in the contract are open to interpretation.

合同中的某些条文容有不同诠释。

His heart bled over certain phrases taken out of context.

这几句断章取义的话好像很伤他的心.

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。

The Italian phrase can be rendered as 'I did my best'.

这个意大利语的短语可以译为“我尽力了”。

Young children latch onto phrases and repeat them over and over.

小孩子喜欢成语,一遍遍地重复.

A phrase jumped out at me in a piece about copyright.

在一篇有关版权的文章中，有一个短语引起了我的注意。

While her English was correct, it was peppered with French phrases.

她的英语语法上没错，但是里面夹杂着很多法语短语。

"Just Do It" has become one of the most overused catch phrases in recent memory.

JustDoit（想做就做）成了近来记忆中用得最滥的流行语之一。

These rules tell us how a sentence is broken down into phrases.

这些规则告诉我们一个句子是怎样分解成若干短语的。

He is fond of using high-sounding phrases.

他爱用夸大的词句.

Many new words and phrases have been included in the revised edition.

修订版收入许多新词语。

Sports commentators repeat the same phrases ad nauseam.

体育解说员翻来覆去说着同样的词语，真叫人腻烦。

I shall try to memorise all these phrases.

我要熟记所有这些词组.

Many phrases in the last two chapters echo earlier passages

最后两章中的很多说法是对前面段落的呼应。

She used rather dated words and phrases.

她使用的词语未免太陈旧了.

There are some very obvious phrases that we all know or certainly should know better than to use.

我们都知道或是肯定应该知道有些说法已毫无新意，最好避免使用。

A phrase from the conference floor set my mind wandering

会上发言者的一句话让我思绪飘远。

This phrase comes from bakers' old custom of adding one extra loaf to an order of a dozen.

源自旧时面包店老板的习惯，即给所订购的一打面包搭送一条面包。

He still loves high-sounding phrases which may mean everything possible or nothing at all.

他至今仍然喜欢那些包罗万象而又空洞无物的响亮词句.

This phrase may well have been a rendering of a popular Arabic expression.

这个短语可能翻译自一个阿拉伯语常用表达。

Many phrases in the last two chapters echo earlier passages.

最后两章中的很多说法是对前面段落的呼应。

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。

The phrase was not meant to be taken seriously.

此话不必当真。