Choose the correct phrasal verb for each blank.

An intransitive phrasal verb is not followed by an object.

不及物片语动词没有受词跟随.

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。”

Who first used the phrase 'survival of the fittest'?

“适者生存”这一说法最早是谁说的？

a carefully phrased remark

措辞谨慎的话语

Sorry, I phrased that badly.

抱歉,我表述得不好。

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。

...Schwarzkopf's distinctive turn of phrase.

施瓦茨科普夫与众不同的行文风格

I agree with what he says, but I'd have phrased it differently.

我赞同他说的，但我会以不同的方式表述。

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”。

...the American phrase 'laying an egg' meaning to fail at something.

意思是“完全失败”的美国习语 laying an egg

This phrase is labelled as an Americanism in this dictionary.

这本词典把这个短语称为美国特有的语言现象.

Polly tried to think how to phrase the question.

波莉在思索这个问题怎么提。

The speech was carefully phrased...

该演讲措词严谨。

I would have phrased it quite differently...

我本可以把它表述得全然不同。

It was a metaphoric ( al ) phrase; we didn't really mean that he has green fingers, only that he is good at gardening.

它是一个比喻的词组; 我们并非说他长了绿手指而是说他擅长园艺技能.

Her order was phrased as a suggestion.

她的命令措辞好像是一项建议。

a memorable phrase

易记的警句

We came across a new phrase.

我们遇到了一个新成语.

He drew out the phrase book and flicked through the pages.

他掏出常用语手册,漫不经心地翻阅着.

Then he put his right hand into his pocket and took out a phrase book.

这时他把手伸进衣兜里掏出一本成语书.