| 词组 | idiom |
| 释义 | idiom Idiom is a word you will find with some frequency in this book, as in most usage books. It is not an especially precise word—Roberts 1954 calls it "loose and unscientific"—and it is generally used by usage writers for some construction or expression that they approve of but cannot analyze. Roberts observes that for some reason idiom often refers in English to combinations involving prepositions and adverbs—you will find plenty of those throughout this book. The word is also frequently applied to those expressions or constructions that either are not transparent from the usual current meanings of the individual words that make them up or that appear to violate some grammatical precept. Vizetelly 1906, for example, defended ice cream and ice water as idioms, because they had been attacked as illogical (see ice cream, ice water). The tension between idiomatic usage and logical analysis is one of the chief sources of usage comment, and has been since at least the middle of the 18th century. For a typical 18th-century treatment of an idiom, see had rather. |
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