Phrasal Verb

短语动词

A type of verb consisting of a sequence of a lexical element plus one or more particles e.g. come in, get up, look out for. Subtypes may be distinguished on syntactic grounds (for instance, the particles may be classified into prepositional or adverbial types), and the definition of ‘phrasal’ varies somewhat within different descriptions. But the overall syntactic and semantic unity of these sequences is readily demonstrable, using transformational and substitution criteria.

指由一个词汇成分加上一个或几个小词的序列构成的一类动词，例如“进入”，“起来”，“提防”等。可根据句法特点区分几个次类（例如小词可分为介词和副词两类），不同的描写对“短语”的定义也有差别。但这种序列总体上语法和语义的统一很容易用转换和替换标准来证明。