1·He used a phrase I hate: "You have to be cruel to be kind."
他用了一句我讨厌的习语：“要想善良，就得残忍。”
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
2·A writer spends many hours going over and over a scene—changing a phrase here, a word there.
作家花许多个小时反复润色一个场景—这儿改个短语，那儿改个单词。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
3·Oh well, no news is good news, to coin a phrase.
噢，常言道，没有消息就是好消息。
—— 《牛津词典》
4·Fifty local musicians have, to coin a phrase, banded together to form the Jazz Umbrella.
套用一句老话，５０位当地的音乐家们联合在一起组成了爵士伞乐队。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
5·In cognitive psychology, we have a phrase for this kind of inaccurate "filling in of details"—it's called: A Blind Spot.
在认知心理学中，我们用一个短语来形容这种不准确的“细节填充”——它被称为“盲点”。
6·One of these urges had to do with creating a state of peace in the midst of turbulence, a "still point of the turning world," to borrow a phrase from T. S. Eliot.
这些诉求之一与在动荡中创造一种平和的状态相关，借用 T。 S。 Eliot 的话来说，就是“旋转世界中的静止点”。
7·Darwin had a phrase to describe those ignorant of evolution: they "look at an organic being as a savage looks at a ship, as at something wholly beyond his comprehension".
达尔文有一句话来描述那些对进化论一无所知的人：他们“看有机生物就像野蛮人看船，看着完全超出他理解的东西一样”。
8·A phrase spawned in techno hell.
这个词在技术世界的地狱中诞生了。
9·The first letter of a phrase or song refrain.
避免用一个词组或一首歌名的首字母。
10·Which, to coin a phrase, is early binding.
而这就是所谓的提前绑定。