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The girl said last night to see a whirlwind roll-your-house, without a trace he also jumped into the sea alone, Dao Yinjian married with you.

姑娘说，昨夜见一个大旋风把你家房子卷起，无影无踪，自己也就只身跳海，到阴间同你成亲。

The only thing you can do is to practice using the expressions as much as you can. That could be done through reading, listening, speaking and writing.

你唯一能做的就是尽可能多的用这些固定搭配。你可以通过阅读，听力，口语和写作来全面练习。

However, the new course standard made the statement that "Learn to use about 3300 words and 400 to 500 idioms or regular collocations" ( The Ministry of Education, 2003).

然而新课程标准中对八级词汇目标这样表述：学会使用3300个左右的单词和400&500个习惯用语或固定搭配（教育部，2003）。

And certain questions words in collocations express different syntactic implications and functions.

《诗经》中的疑问词又经常与如、其、云、伊等词语固定搭配，表现出不同的句法意义与句法功能。

The stereotype theory is mainly applied into fixed allocation, expression in semantic formation referring to fixed expressions toward a certain group and individuals.

而定型理论在语言学界主要是应用于语义和语言形成的固定搭配，表达，以及指对社会某群体或个体印象看法的表达。

Teachers usually take usages of English spatial prepositions as idiomatic usages and require learners to learn by rote.

长期以来，教育工作者仅仅将空间介词的各种用法视为固定搭配而让学生强记。

Such kind of labeling has retrieved the original connotation of "the masses" as the aggregation of the lumpen and eventually imposed a negative image to "the masses".

这种固定搭配既唤醒了“群众”的本来涵义&乌合之众，也是对“群众”的“丑学”赋形。

Farmland and livestock also has a fixed ratio like that is North Chinese.

耕地与牲畜也固定搭配。

The analysis shows the negative transfer of Chinese mainly manifests on word selection, the misuse of part of speech and word collocation.

通过分析表明汉语在英语写作中词汇运用的负迁移主要表现在词汇选择，词性误用，固定搭配三方面。

Collocation includes restricted collocation, free combination, unusual collocation and so on.

词汇搭配可分为固定搭配、自由组合及异常搭配等。词汇的组合关系有组合关系和纵聚合关系；

He believed that south of the Indian Ocean a continent existed with a mild climate, where the people were very wealthy.

前面是固定搭配，南亚次大陆，后面表示泛指，一个比较温和的天气。

Would you please lend the book you referred to to me?

第一个to属动词refer的固定搭配，第二个为介词。句意为：你能把你提到的那本书借给我吗？

Besides, Chinese learners tend to replace the verbs with their synonyms in lexical combinations, and thus infelicitous collocations are produced.

另外，非英语专业英语学习者倾向于用同义词替换固定搭配中的动词。

The causes involve improper learning strategies, inadequate vocabularies, unawareness of English collocations, and overgeneralization of grammar rules and so on.

例如：学习策略的不当，词汇量的不足，对英语固定搭配的忽视，对语言规则的过度概括等。

Collocation is the habitual co-occurrence of two words or groups of words in natural texts. Collocation and Cohesion in Discourse

词语搭配就是指两个或两个以上的词的习惯共现，可以分为固定搭配、常规搭配和破格搭配；Collocation的语篇衔接功能

From the aspects of vocabulary, set-phrases and idioms and grammar, this article discusses how to teach the two different reading courses of college English more effectively.

本文从词汇、短语及固定搭配和语法几个方面讨论了怎样更有效地上好大学英语的精读和泛读课。

This article sums up ten methods of guessing the meaning of new words, based on factors consisting in language such as interaction, correlation and fixed collocation, etc.

本文从语言本身所存在的互为性、联系性及固定搭配等诸多因素，总结了猜测词义的十种方法。

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。

This paper presents the concept of semantic pattern, and constructs semantic pattern base of English preposition phrases and sentences, major parameter base and knowledge base of English set phrases.

在研究英语介词相关短语和句式的基础上，给出了语义模式的概念，构建了介词相关短语语义模式库、相关句式语义模式库、主虚量库和固定搭配知识库。

" These lakes pose a very severe risk," said Liu Yuan, an environmental official with the Land and Resources Ministry.

pose a very severe risk就是“构成十分严重威胁”的意思，其中的pose risk属于固定搭配，类似的说法还有pose threat，这又是一个十分地道的英语表达。