idiom是什么意思|idiom的音标|idiom的用法-英文词典频道-汉语字典

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1. 他(-t)是个白痴 => idiot. 妈妈(-m)教我学习成语、习语、方言 => idiom.
2. idiot, idiom => 白痴他(-t, idiot)记不住习语.

idiom 习语，习惯

来自希腊语idios,个人的，自己的，来自PIE*swe,个人，自己，词源同self,swain,custom.引申词义个人的生活习惯，个人的说话方式，后抽象化为习语，习惯。

idiom (n.): 1580s, "form of speech peculiar to a people or place," from Middle French idiome (16c.) and directly from Late Latin idioma "a peculiarity in language," from Greek idioma "peculiarity, peculiar phraseology," from idioumai "to appropriate to oneself," from idios "personal, private," properly "particular to oneself," from PIE *swed-yo-, suffixed form of root *s(w)e-, pronoun of the third person and reflexive (referring back to the subject of a sentence), also used in forms denoting the speaker's social group, "(we our-)selves" (cognates: Sanskrit svah, Avestan hva-, Old Persian huva "one's own," khva-data "lord," literally "created from oneself;" Greek hos "he, she, it;" Latin suescere "to accustom, get accustomed," sodalis "companion;" Old Church Slavonic svoji "his, her, its," svojaku "relative, kinsman;" Gothic swes "one's own;" Old Norse sik "oneself;" German Sein; Old Irish fein "self, himself"). Meaning "phrase or expression peculiar to a language" is from 1620s.

3. And nothing was so irritating as the confident way he used archaic idiom.: 没什么比他使用过时的方言时那种自负的神态更气人的了。

4. McCartney was also keen to write in a classical idiom, rather than a pop one.: 麦卡特尼也热衷于古典风格而不是通俗风格的创作。

5. She is, in fact, a perfect illustration of the French idiom "to be comfortable in one's own skin.": 实际上，她很好地诠释了“欣然接纳自我”这一法语习语的意思。