1. (音樂(lè )、舞蹈、建筑的)風(fēng)格，特色 A particular idiom is a particular style of something such as music, dance, or architecture.
e.g. McCartney was also keen to write in a classical idiom, rather than a pop one... 麥卡特尼也熱衷于古典風(fēng)格而不是通俗風(fēng)格的創(chuàng )作。 e.g. It was an old building in the local idiom. 那是一座具有當地風(fēng)格的古建筑。
2. 習語(yǔ);成語(yǔ) An idiom is a group of words which have a different meaning when used together from the one they would have if you took the meaning of each word separately.
e.g. Proverbs and idioms may become worn with overuse... 諺語(yǔ)和習語(yǔ)會(huì )由于使用過(guò)多而變得俗套。 e.g. She is, in fact, a perfect illustration of the French idiom 'to be comfortable in one's own skin.' 實(shí)際上，她很好地詮釋了“欣然接納自我”這一法語(yǔ)習語(yǔ)的意思。
3. 方言;土語(yǔ) Idiom of a particular kind is the language that people use at a particular time or in a particular place.
e.g. And nothing was so irritating as the confident way he used archaic idiom. 沒(méi)什么比他使用過(guò)時(shí)的方言時(shí)那種自負的神態(tài)更氣人的了。 e.g. ...her command of the Chinese idiom. 她對漢語(yǔ)方言的掌握
idiom英英釋義
noun
1. the style of a particular artist or school or movement
e.g. an imaginative orchestral idiom
Synonym: artistic style
2. a manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language
Synonym: parlance
3. an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up