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the operative word idiom the most important word in a phrase, which explains the truth of a situation: 关键词;最重要的词 He was a painter - "was" being the operative word, since he died last week.他曾经是位画家——“曾经”是关键词,因为他上周去世了。 SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Linguistics: sentences & expressions adage asyndetic asyndetically asyndeton backchannel clause coin complex sentence compound sentence concessive clause dicta dictum motto phrase proverbial sentence subsentence tail Trumpism war cry
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