| 词汇 | example_english_idiomatic |
| 释义 | Examples of idiomaticThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. The generated code should be idiomatic and readable. When a type definition exposes its representation, it is more idiomatic and readable to put related utility functions in separate interfaces. Many older speakers argue that young speakers are completely lost when it comes to understanding idiomatic language. The following were judged to be questionable or ungrammatical in their idiomatic interpretations :22 ' ' ' ' (48) (a) ? Complainable matters: the use of idiomatic expressions in making complaints. The use of shor t-form adjectives is decreasing, while more and more of the survivors are frozen in lexicalized or idiomatic expressions. The writing for the piano is bold, virtuosic, and effective, and that for the orchestra brilliant, imaginative, and in every way idiomatic. Lexicalization rules identify elements that must cohere in the speech: words, word fragments, and idiomatic phrases such as by the way. We use language to order and to classify, and our classifications are historical, stylistic, generic, idiomatic, descriptive, and so on. Such moments of idiomatic creativity are invariably the product of interaction between the speakers and what is felt to be appropriate in a particular context. There are, however, forty non-canonical versions of idiomatic phraseology: see the accompanying table. Instead, the concessive meaning is a semantic idiosyncrasy that underscores the idiomatic character of just because... doesn't mean. Assuming that she heard me correctly, my attempt at idiomatic fluency had flopped. I wouldn't be caught dead though using an idiomatic expression wrongly! They need to know, too, that the idiomatic nature of a phrase (or the contrary) need not affect its grammar. Indeed, the need for greater idiomatic competence is precisely what linguists propose for the nonnative speaker. Once they come to play idiomatic keyboard music from sheet music, they are likely to lose interest in the simpler, less varied songs. The choice of the idiomatic answer shows that the figurative meaning is recognized as appropriate in the context. The expression is not so idiomatic as to be non-compositional. However, the constituents of this expression do not occur independently in their idiomatic meanings. The idiomatic interpretations of these expressions are quite similar to their literal interpretations, and may be thought of as metaphorical extensions of these. If the utterance is not idiomatic, the intermediate syntactic structures contain the decomposition of the utterance's syntactic constituents. Unlike examples (15), examples (17) cannot be claimed to be idiomatic. Before that time, spatial prepositions and particles were often felt too quirky and their meanings too idiomatic for systematic linguistic study. The evidence so far collected on these two latter developmental phases is scarce and restricted to the comprehension and interpretation of idiomatic expressions. In most cases, skilled text comprehenders were able to identify the idiomatic meaning among the three proposed answers. Table 1 shows the percentages of idiomatic, literal and filler answers chosen by less-skilled and skilled text comprehenders. Even if children's mean justification scores were slightly lower in the non-idiomatic verb condition, none of the differences reached significance. Physical constraints produce unique timbre characteristics, and suggest musical material that will be idiomatic or appropriate for a particular instrumental playing technique. The article reports problems with locating compound nouns, idiomatic phrases and the citation for m of past participles. Further, (8), while clearly meaning the same as its more idiomatic counterpart, sounds odd, or at least distinctly less typical. One problem type, then, that is definitely unique to idiomatic strings, especially to partly variable ones, is their partial or incorrect retrieval. Adults in this study expressed their resistance to certain idiomatic sounds - they mentioned more about the avoidance of conventions rather than the use of them. The object of most bilinguals is probably to become fully idiomatic in two languages. The idiomatic nature of just because... doesn't mean presents us with a puzzle. Luke picks up this lexical item running and 'metaphoricizes' it, transforming a literal expression into an idiomatic allusion: what's the use of running? The speaker often employs hyperbole and is given to the constant utterance of absurdly emphatic exclamations, employing idiomatic and proverbial expressions, which are often allusive. At the same time, however, notice that the problem cannot be fully solved by simply speaking of the idiomatic/conventional nature of over-prefixation. Subjects were told that each utterance was spoken with an intended literal meaning or an intended idiomatic meaning. The second question pertains to whether the prosodic cues differentiating idiomatic and literal speech are universal. Their habitus informs idiomatic choices that enable them to accumulate cultural capital and construct a bank of works from which they draw creative sustenance. Moreover, the thematic structures of the idiomatic and literal interpretations of these expressions are quite different. In sum, such apparently ' simple ' adjectival post-modifiers are either idiomatic or phrasal and do not constitute serious counterexamples to prediction (a) above. A typical idiomatic usage illustrating this sense is given in (38), in which a child might be being addressed by an adult. Subtleties of tuning, microtonal inflection, instrumental timbres, idiomatic instrumental and vocal techniques, non-periodic rhythms and a generalised metric freedom were lost entirely. Has a good command of idiomatic expressions and colloquialisms with awareness of connotative levels of meaning. Using clipart and concordancing to teach idiomatic expressions. The percentage of idiomatic choices increases because the other two types of answers decrease, with literal choices decreasing the most. Specifically, statistics on phrase selection and alignment are provided when dealing with verb phrases, idiomatic expressions and date expressions separately. The dataset also contains senses that span over multiple words, covering idiomatic expressions. Needless to say, non-idiomatic predicates take regular negators, and are not relevant for testing the hypothesis advanced here. The study examined metaphor comprehension in three target domains (time, ideas, sickness) and two linguistic metaphor conditions (idiomatic, non-idiomatic). There were three basic types of errors: syntactic, morphological, and lexical-idiomatic. The absence of a main verb tells us that an elliptical or wholly idiomatic utterance is involved and that special handling is required. We often say that apples and oranges cannot be compared, so often that the image has become idiomatic. If we look at the higher levels of language learning we find there is, in fact, greater emphasis on idiomatic language. Their smiles indicated a common understanding of this idiomatic closure. During the ®rst year, the piano teachers were able to avoid facing the dilemma between the aural approach and the idiomatic notation-based approach. At some point, idiomatic keyboard pieces need to be introduced. Thus, we are only concerned with the idiomatic usage of negative predicates. I believe it would be more accurate to say that number agreement in this case would destroy the idiomatic reading of men's room. Secondly, we have also implemented a selection based on idiomatic expressions. I can take part effortlessly in any conversation or discussion and have a good familiarity with idiomatic expressions and colloquialisms. Because of the distinctly idiomatic nature of between you and 1sg "confidentially," we excluded these tokens. Initially, she summarizes it as having been a "rough week" (which is idiomatic, if not quite figurative). Idiomatic expressions make up an important part of the vocabulary of every language and should therefore be taught in foreign-language education. Under some circumstances, the presence of an idiomatic construction in the input aided learners in acquiring the phrase structure of the language. The sentence in (23a), which is grammatical in its idiomatic interpretation, contrasts with (23b), which has only a literal interpretation. By contrast, the negative head nai in kamawa-nai, which is less idiomatic than niekira-nai, is a well-behaved negator. There are idiomatic difficulties in talking of these departmentagency relationships as 'policy networks'. What idiomatic phrases are there? What has been considered an idiomatic 'deficit' can be seen as a constructive response to the limits of one's own competence and the needs of one's addressee. While they are not as such transparent, knowledge of the etymology of these idiomatic expressions makes them fully compositional in the figurative world, so to speak. Language learning for visual targets related to literal meanings of idiom constituent words than for targets related figuratively to the metaphoric interpretation of the idiomatic phrase. Object-oriented systems often exhibit idiomatic and recurring patterns and structures of communicating objects that solve par ticular design problems and make design more flexible, elegant, and ultimately reusable. The teachers were happy to prolong this situation in which the aural approach was combined with a repertoire of both songs and simple idiomatic piano pieces. The idiomatic expression 'cambiar de chip' has even been coined, referring to situations where one has to change one's mental 'chip' to cope effectively with new events. The entirely new and often disconcerting experience of a totally alien physical and cultural environment produced a new set of lexical items, both single lexemes and idiomatic phrases. Idioms and mental imagery : the metaphorical motivation of idiomatic meaning. The study finds that sub-genres of academic language do not significantly var y in the proportion of idiomatic use but that that differences are noticeable in individual wr itings. Errors could be due primarily to deficient linguistic processing in general, specific problems with the idiomatic expressions, or problems with the prosodic cues differentiating the two meanings. Certainly, the opportunity to encounter an idiomatic expression is an important factor, but researchers agree that exposure per se is not sufficient to explain its acquisition. On catching on to idiomatic expressions. Idiomatic versus literal interpretations of ditropically ambiguous sentences. Idiomatic expressions and their role in the organization of topic transition in conversation. More-constrained forms are generally identified as idiomatic since their meanings are not a transparent composition of the component words. A public language is one which contains a large number of idiomatic, traditional phrases from which the individual chooses. To hear your command of contemporary phraseology, your delicate use of the very latest idiomatic expression, so subtly employed. In their discussion of nonsubject expletives they distinguish between unspecified direct objects, idiomatic meanings, and omissible expletive it. Students were able to demonstrate understanding of musical form through their compositions even producing idiomatic, quite stylised pieces. Furthermore, idiomatic usage may distinguish between the zero article and the definite article in such contexts. Each word is explained with examples of literal, figurative, and idiomatic uses. Despite their surface similarity with the morphological form verb+nai, the idiomatic negative expressions in are in fact divided into two distinct groups. The idiomatic interpretations of both of these expressions are metaphorical extensions of their literal, military interpretations. When an idiomatic sentence is interpreted literally, a semantic anomaly is produced. The writing for solo instrument, while taxing, is idiomatic and allows the soloist to show off his considerable interpretative skills without struggling with extraneous effects. Spatial audio processing mappings are idiomatic since the shaman hands visibly traverse large areas. The phrase, in its origins, was a colloquialism: its meanings were idiomatic to the neighbourhood's inhabitants. Even in speech, colloquial and idiomatic forms are relatively rare. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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