1 N-COUNT [usually singular] (音乐、舞蹈、建筑的)风格，特色 A particular idiom is a particular style of something such as music, dance, or architecture. (音乐、舞蹈、建筑的)风格，特色 [formal]
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McCartney was also keen to write in a classical idiom, rather than a pop one.
麦卡特尼也热衷于古典风格而不是通俗风格的创作。
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It was an old building in the local idiom.
那是一座具有当地风格的古建筑。
2 N-COUNT 习语;成语 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. 习语;成语 [technical]
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Proverbs and idioms may become worn with overuse.
谚语和习语会由于使用过多而变得俗套。
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She is, in fact, a perfect illustration of the French idiom 'to be comfortable in one's own skin.'
实际上，她很好地诠释了“欣然接纳自我”这一法语习语的意思。
SYN phrase, expression, turn of phrase, locution
3 N-UNCOUNT 方言;土语 Idiom of a particular kind is the language that people use at a particular time or in a particular place. 方言;土语 [formal]
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And nothing was so irritating as the confident way he used archaic idiom.
没什么比他使用过时的方言时那种自负的神态更气人的了。
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...her command of the Chinese idiom.
她对汉语方言的掌握
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