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词汇 idiomatic
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Definition of idiomatic in English:

idiomatic

adjective ˌɪdɪəˈmatɪkˌɪdiəˈmædɪk
  • 1Using, containing, or denoting expressions that are natural to a native speaker.

    习语的;符合语言习惯的

    he spoke fluent, idiomatic English
    Example sentencesExamples
    • A common antebellum designation for the country, these United States survived in the 20th century in folksy idiomatic usage.
    • Where do you think the idiomatic expressions ‘mind your manners’ and ‘mind your own business’ come from?
    • The idiomatic expression ‘for the birds’ is common enough to crop up in everyday conversation.
    • It's a bit too specific for an idiomatic prototype.
    • Some slipped idiomatic expressions or literary allusions into their copy in the hopes that the censor would miss the subtleties - and it often worked.
    • Romani uses many idiomatic expressions, proverbs, and sayings, often with metaphorical qualities.
    • In the Russian culture, the colour with the biggest variety of negative connotations reflected in idiomatic expressions is black.
    • In addition to drawing on family stories and memories in his writing, Forbes also culls stories and phrases from African American oral tradition and frequently employs colloquial and idiomatic language in his poetry.
    • E-mail translation services are already available on a number of Web sites, and although their treatment of idiomatic expressions leaves something to be desired, the basic technology is in place.
    • One important component of successful language learning is the mastery of idiomatic forms of expression, including idioms, collocations, and sentence frames (collectively referred to here as formulaic sequences).
    • There is no doubt that native speakers of a language have a feel for its nuances, are comfortable using its idiomatic expressions, and speak it fluently.
    • The first experiment showed greater interference between idioms with the same syntactic structure, demonstrating that idiomatic representations contain syntactic information.
    • Nevertheless, the expressions are idiomatic in the sense that their grammaticality cannot be ‘figured out’ solely by reference to general principles.
    • Citizens here who read The Korea Times have the opportunity to amass a wider variety of idiomatic and colloquial expressions written by foreigners from various backgrounds.
    • I'll try to translate this love song with an eye on idiomatic expressions rendered at least comprehensible and maybe even give it a little poetry.
    • More or less the same story can be told of the binding patterns in certain inalienable possessives and idiomatic constructions in English.
    • And when we get to the difference between being in town and being on campus, or for that matter the difference between being in time and being on time, we're pretty clearly in the realm of idiomatic phrasal patterns.
    • This is comparable to attempting a critical analysis of Shakespeare's Elizabethan phraseology and idiomatic expression in Chinese, while ignoring the relevance of the English language!
    • Aside from this special interpretation of parallel modification, English seems to be deficient in easy or idiomatic ways to talk about the properties of relations as distinct from the properties of the items related.
    • Second, more specific aspects of idiomatic meaning are provided by the’ ontological mapping’ that applies to a given idiomatic expression.
    Synonyms
    natural, native-speaker, grammatical, correct
    vernacular, colloquial, everyday, conversational
  • 2Appropriate to the style of art or music associated with a particular period, individual, or group.

    与(某时期、人或团体的艺术或音乐风格)相合的;特点一致的

    a short Bach piece containing lots of idiomatic motifs

    一小段含有许多特色调子的巴赫乐曲。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Usually I feel that period instrument groups present a more idiomatic picture of Classical era music, but I doubt that the interpretations of Quintett Momento Musicale can be improved upon.
    • Rather than hard driving, power pounding brilliance, the duo-pianists brought musicality and idiomatic style to a memorable performance.
    • When his music is performed with conviction, vocal beauty, and idiomatic French style Faust can still provide an engrossing evening of musical theater.
    • Talich was not a showy musician, and perhaps his greatest strength, apart from his natural talent as a conductor, was his dedication to presenting idiomatic performances of music with which he had a personal relationship.
    • We can reproduce original instruments, authentic period acoustics, idiomatic playing styles, etc, but the rock on which the musical purists must all eventually founder is that it is impossible to reproduce original listeners.
    • His brilliant rhythmic dexterity and idiomatic sense of Prokofiev's ‘Music of New Russia’ captured the sarcasm and biting wit of the Scherzo: Allegro marcato.
    • Both of the Evening Canticles are in his own idiomatic style, and hark back, in different ways, to ancient, time-hallowed chant.
    • All three movements of approximately equal duration are flowing, expressive and full of idiomatic pianistic gestures and an individual harmonic and textural syntax within a broadly neo-classical frame.
    • Kenneth Slowik's direction is surefooted and idiomatic, and the recording is a treat: well natural and detailed, so you don't miss a note, and the essays in the booklet are fascinating.
    • Just to prove that the United States is a melting pot, they give idiomatic performances of this quintessentially American music!
    • Neil Bartlett is taking his leave as artistic director in great style, with his elegantly idiomatic translation of one of Molière's greatest plays, and a production that is among the very best Molière I've seen.
    • The Turin tablatures contain a similar range of music notated in new German keyboard tablature rather than staff notation, including transcriptions of motets and madrigals as well as idiomatic keyboard music.
    • Definitely a fine orchestra, Cassuto and his forces give idiomatic interpretations of Bomtempo's music, my sole reservation being a sagging of momentum in the Trio section of the 2nd Symphony's Minuetto.
    • Lippa's music, though idiomatic, is not rich in melody, depending largely on rhythm and harmony.
    • Dacic played this music with idiomatic romanticism and true Russian soul!
    • He has a really idiomatic rapport with the music.
    • He commanded dynamic playing from the young musicians and imbued each score with idiomatic fervor and a wonderful sense of the music's ebb and flow.
    • But the greatest instrumental composer of the period was undoubtedly the blind organist Antonio de Cabezón, favourite of Philip II, who was one of the first composers of genuinely idiomatic keyboard music.
    • And the main difference I think between freely improvised music and the musics you quoted is, that they are idiomatic and freely improvised music isn't.
    • It takes a few minutes, but Tharaud's touch and his way with the ornaments feels right, and they start to seem quite natural and idiomatic.

Derivatives

  • idiomatically

  • adverb ɪdɪəˈmatɪk(ə)liˌɪdiəˈmædək(ə)li
    • Which, idiomatically, is mostly true - it's the grammatical fineries he got mixed up.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Another composer who shows how particular artists can inspire compositions that are not only musically expressive, but also idiomatically impressive is Benjamin Britten, who had no reputation as a guitarist.
      • The Royal Opera casts these roles well, though not idiomatically, with the Italian tenor Giuseppe Filianoti, the Bulgarian mezzo Vesselina Kasarova and the English bass Alastair Miles.
      • And suppose you wanted to compose a work for the lyric stage, one that clearly and idiomatically had its roots in American soil.
      • Similar to Glengarry Glen Ross, Mamet uses fragmentary narrative to create a mosaic of situations in which his protagonists confront each other under pressure, using the fast paced, idiomatically exclusive jargon of movie making.

Origin

Early 18th century: from Greek idiōmatikos 'peculiar, characteristic', from idiōma (see idiom).

Rhymes

achromatic, acrobatic, Adriatic, aerobatic, anagrammatic, aquatic, aristocratic, aromatic, asthmatic, athematic, attic, autocratic, automatic, axiomatic, bureaucratic, charismatic, chromatic, cinematic, climatic, dalmatic, democratic, diagrammatic, diaphragmatic, diplomatic, dogmatic, dramatic, ecstatic, emblematic, emphatic, enigmatic, epigrammatic, erratic, fanatic, hepatic, hieratic, hydrostatic, hypostatic, idiosyncratic, isochromatic, lymphatic, melodramatic, meritocratic, miasmatic, monochromatic, monocratic, monogrammatic, numismatic, operatic, panchromatic, pancreatic, paradigmatic, phlegmatic, photostatic, piratic, plutocratic, pneumatic, polychromatic, pragmatic, prelatic, prismatic, problematic, programmatic, psychosomatic, quadratic, rheumatic, schematic, schismatic, sciatic, semi-automatic, Socratic, somatic, static, stigmatic, sub-aquatic, sylvatic, symptomatic, systematic, technocratic, thematic, theocratic, thermostatic, traumatic

Definition of idiomatic in US English:

idiomatic

adjectiveˌidēəˈmadikˌɪdiəˈmædɪk
  • 1Using, containing, or denoting expressions that are natural to a native speaker.

    习语的;符合语言习惯的

    distinctive idiomatic dialogue

    这则广告使用特色习语对话。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • And when we get to the difference between being in town and being on campus, or for that matter the difference between being in time and being on time, we're pretty clearly in the realm of idiomatic phrasal patterns.
    • The idiomatic expression ‘for the birds’ is common enough to crop up in everyday conversation.
    • It's a bit too specific for an idiomatic prototype.
    • Some slipped idiomatic expressions or literary allusions into their copy in the hopes that the censor would miss the subtleties - and it often worked.
    • I'll try to translate this love song with an eye on idiomatic expressions rendered at least comprehensible and maybe even give it a little poetry.
    • Nevertheless, the expressions are idiomatic in the sense that their grammaticality cannot be ‘figured out’ solely by reference to general principles.
    • A common antebellum designation for the country, these United States survived in the 20th century in folksy idiomatic usage.
    • Where do you think the idiomatic expressions ‘mind your manners’ and ‘mind your own business’ come from?
    • E-mail translation services are already available on a number of Web sites, and although their treatment of idiomatic expressions leaves something to be desired, the basic technology is in place.
    • Citizens here who read The Korea Times have the opportunity to amass a wider variety of idiomatic and colloquial expressions written by foreigners from various backgrounds.
    • In addition to drawing on family stories and memories in his writing, Forbes also culls stories and phrases from African American oral tradition and frequently employs colloquial and idiomatic language in his poetry.
    • There is no doubt that native speakers of a language have a feel for its nuances, are comfortable using its idiomatic expressions, and speak it fluently.
    • More or less the same story can be told of the binding patterns in certain inalienable possessives and idiomatic constructions in English.
    • This is comparable to attempting a critical analysis of Shakespeare's Elizabethan phraseology and idiomatic expression in Chinese, while ignoring the relevance of the English language!
    • Aside from this special interpretation of parallel modification, English seems to be deficient in easy or idiomatic ways to talk about the properties of relations as distinct from the properties of the items related.
    • One important component of successful language learning is the mastery of idiomatic forms of expression, including idioms, collocations, and sentence frames (collectively referred to here as formulaic sequences).
    • Second, more specific aspects of idiomatic meaning are provided by the’ ontological mapping’ that applies to a given idiomatic expression.
    • In the Russian culture, the colour with the biggest variety of negative connotations reflected in idiomatic expressions is black.
    • The first experiment showed greater interference between idioms with the same syntactic structure, demonstrating that idiomatic representations contain syntactic information.
    • Romani uses many idiomatic expressions, proverbs, and sayings, often with metaphorical qualities.
    Synonyms
    natural, native-speaker, grammatical, correct
  • 2Appropriate to the style of art or music associated with a particular period, individual, or group.

    与(某时期、人或团体的艺术或音乐风格)相合的;特点一致的

    a short Bach piece containing lots of idiomatic motifs

    一小段含有许多特色调子的巴赫乐曲。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He commanded dynamic playing from the young musicians and imbued each score with idiomatic fervor and a wonderful sense of the music's ebb and flow.
    • Neil Bartlett is taking his leave as artistic director in great style, with his elegantly idiomatic translation of one of Molière's greatest plays, and a production that is among the very best Molière I've seen.
    • Both of the Evening Canticles are in his own idiomatic style, and hark back, in different ways, to ancient, time-hallowed chant.
    • And the main difference I think between freely improvised music and the musics you quoted is, that they are idiomatic and freely improvised music isn't.
    • He has a really idiomatic rapport with the music.
    • It takes a few minutes, but Tharaud's touch and his way with the ornaments feels right, and they start to seem quite natural and idiomatic.
    • We can reproduce original instruments, authentic period acoustics, idiomatic playing styles, etc, but the rock on which the musical purists must all eventually founder is that it is impossible to reproduce original listeners.
    • Rather than hard driving, power pounding brilliance, the duo-pianists brought musicality and idiomatic style to a memorable performance.
    • All three movements of approximately equal duration are flowing, expressive and full of idiomatic pianistic gestures and an individual harmonic and textural syntax within a broadly neo-classical frame.
    • The Turin tablatures contain a similar range of music notated in new German keyboard tablature rather than staff notation, including transcriptions of motets and madrigals as well as idiomatic keyboard music.
    • Lippa's music, though idiomatic, is not rich in melody, depending largely on rhythm and harmony.
    • His brilliant rhythmic dexterity and idiomatic sense of Prokofiev's ‘Music of New Russia’ captured the sarcasm and biting wit of the Scherzo: Allegro marcato.
    • But the greatest instrumental composer of the period was undoubtedly the blind organist Antonio de Cabezón, favourite of Philip II, who was one of the first composers of genuinely idiomatic keyboard music.
    • Kenneth Slowik's direction is surefooted and idiomatic, and the recording is a treat: well natural and detailed, so you don't miss a note, and the essays in the booklet are fascinating.
    • Dacic played this music with idiomatic romanticism and true Russian soul!
    • When his music is performed with conviction, vocal beauty, and idiomatic French style Faust can still provide an engrossing evening of musical theater.
    • Definitely a fine orchestra, Cassuto and his forces give idiomatic interpretations of Bomtempo's music, my sole reservation being a sagging of momentum in the Trio section of the 2nd Symphony's Minuetto.
    • Talich was not a showy musician, and perhaps his greatest strength, apart from his natural talent as a conductor, was his dedication to presenting idiomatic performances of music with which he had a personal relationship.
    • Usually I feel that period instrument groups present a more idiomatic picture of Classical era music, but I doubt that the interpretations of Quintett Momento Musicale can be improved upon.
    • Just to prove that the United States is a melting pot, they give idiomatic performances of this quintessentially American music!

Origin

Early 18th century: from Greek idiōmatikos ‘peculiar, characteristic’, from idiōma (see idiom).

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