| 释义 |
phrasal, a.|ˈfreɪzəl|
[f. phrase + -al1.]
a. Of the nature of or consisting of a phrase. Used in Gram. in collocations qualifying the name of a part of speech to denote phrases which have the function of that part of speech, esp. phrasal verb, an idiomatic verbal phrase consisting of a verb and adverb or a verb and preposition.
1871Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue §445 Often we see that we are obliged to translate a flexional Greek adverb by a phrasal English one. Ibid. §529 A third series..are the phrasal prepositions, consisting of more than one word. 1879J. Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue (ed. 3) x. 553 Modern English has made a new phrasal verb, and one that yet waits for a name. In this new verb the pronoun it, referring to no noun, acts as an objective accompaniment, and runs next after the verb. 1925L. P. Smith Words & Idioms v. 172 Even more numerous are the idiomatic collocations of verbs followed by prepositions, or by prepositions used as adverbs. Collocations of this kind, ‘phrasal verbs’ we may call them, like ‘keep down’, ‘set up’, ‘put through’, and thousands of others. [Note] The term ‘phrasal verbs’ was suggested to me by the late Dr. Bradley. 1954E. Gowers Compl. Plain Words vi. 71 There is today a tendency to form phrasal verbs to express a meaning no different from that of the verb without the particle... Drown out, sound out, lose out, rest up, miss out on, are other examples of phrasal verbs which I am told are used in America in senses no different from that of the unadorned verb. 1959M. Schlauch Eng. Lang. 310 (Index), Phrasal adjectives. 1961R. B. Long Sentence & its Parts ix. 218 In units such as three-year-old, whether used as phrasal nouns (as in the three-year-old next door) or as prepositive modifiers (as in any three-year-old child), the construction is different but obviously related. Ibid. x. 235 Units such as tomorrow afternoon..are syntactically much like phrasal-proper-name units such as Earlham College. 1973Word 1970 XXVI. 116 The following contain phrasal verbs: You will have to look out for yourself; He did away with himself.
b. Mus. Of or belonging to a phrase (in sense 5 of the n.).
1946R. Blesh Shining Trumpets v. 106 This solo puts the semitonally flatted third and fifth in phrasal conjunction. |
