They often use unnatural English expressions that have right word items but improper collocation. 表现在语言输出中,就是口语和写作中出现很多不得当的搭配,表达十分不自然。
With harmonious collocation of white and shallow wooden-grain, it is of classics and fashion sense. 白色与浅木纹的和谐搭配,经典而不乏时尚感。
The credit fund has taken effect in western, but there are a series of problems in its collocation. 信贷资金在西部开发中起了很大的作用,但是由于种种原因,西部信贷资金在配置资源方面还存在一系列的问题。
collocation
[ noun ]
a grouping of words in a sentence
<noun.communication>
the act of positioning close together (or side by side)
<noun.act> it is the result of the juxtaposition of contrasting colors
Collocation \Col`lo*ca"tion\, n. [L. collocatio.] 1. The act of placing; the state of being placed with something else; disposition in place; arrangement.
The choice and collocation of words. --Sir W. Jones.
2. (Linguistics) a combination of related words within a sentence that occurs more frequently than would be predicted in a random arrangement of words; a combination of words that occurs with sufficient frequency to be recongizable as a common combination, especially a pair of words that occur adjacent to each other. Also called {stable collocation}. Combinations of words having intervening words between them, such as verb and object pairs, may also be collocations. [PJC]
"However, the report stated that from 1982 to 1985, collocated offices were separating more frequently than offices were collocating, and that collocation did not necessarily lead to increased cooperation among the agencies," the GAO said.