谁知道各大字典对习语的定义,最好是英文原版的.并标注页数,出版社...

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谁知道各大字典对习语的定义,最好是英文原版的.并标注页数,出版社...

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1、Longman Active English-Chinese Dictionary (1990) defines an idiom as “a phrase which means something different from the meanings of the separate words”.
2、Longman Dictionary of contemporary English (1998) gives the definitive “a phrase which means something different from them meanings of the separate words from which it is formed”
3、The concise Oxford Dictionary (2000) gives such a definition as “a group of words established by usage and having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words”.
4、Oxford Advantaged Learner’s English-Chinese Dictionary,an idiom means “a phrase or sentence whose meaning is not clear from the meaning of its individual words and which must be learn as a whole unit”.