with obj.
- express the meaning of (something written or spoken or the writer or speaker) using different words, especially to achieve greater clarity对（书面或口头材料）释义, 解释（作者, 说话人）的意思：
you can either quote or paraphrase literary texts.
你可以直接引用书上的原文, 也可以转述。
- a rewording of something written or spoken by someone else转述, 释义。
派生词
paraphrasable
adjectiveparaphrastic
adjective词源
mid 16th cent. (as a noun)： via Latin from Greek paraphrasis, from paraphrazein, from para- (expressing modification) + phrazein 'tell'.