中英互译
dialect
英 /ˈdaɪəlekt/美 /ˈdaɪəlekt/
基本释义
- n.方言,土话
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词语例句
方言,土话n.
六级四级It is often appropriate to use the local dialect to communicate your message.
用方言来交流信息往往很合适。
It is impossible to say at what point along the continuum a dialect becomes a separate language.
要说出同一语言的方言差异到什么程度就成为一种别的语言是不可能的。
The most basic reason why dialects should be preserved is that language helps to retain a culture.
方言应该被保留的最基本的原因是语言有助于保留文化。
- It was difficult to understand the local dialect.这种方言很难懂。来自《牛津词典》
- It is often appropriate to use the local dialect to communicate your message.用方言来交流信息往往很合适。来自《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
- It is impossible to say at what point along the continuum a dialect becomes a separate language.要说出同一语言的方言差异到什么程度就成为一种别的语言是不可能的。来自《牛津词典》
相关短语
- chinese dialect中国方言
- local dialect地区方言
- dialect continuum方言连续体;方言连续性
- Beijing dialect北京话;京腔;京片子;北京方言
- Amoy dialect厦门话
- fuzhou dialect福州方言
- kansai dialect近畿方言;关西腔;关西方言;関西弁
词语扩展
n.
方言,土话;同源语;行话;个人用语特征
adj.
n.
dialectic辩证法;逻辑论证
dialectology[语] 方言学;方言研究
- tone/dialect/accent
- speech/laguage/tongue/slang/dialect/idiom
词义分布
方言
98.4%
土话
1.6%
英英释义
- n.the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people
- n.a form of a language that people speak in a particular area
方言;地方话- They were speaking in the local dialect.他们说的是地方方言。
词源
- dialect方言dia-, 穿过,相互。-lect, 说,词源同lecture, legible. 即人与人之的对话交流,后用来指区域性的语言,即方言。
- dialect方言词根词缀: dia-相对,之间 + -lect-诵读
- dialectFrom Middle French dialecte, from Latin dialectos, dialectus, from Ancient Greek διάλεκτος (diálektos, “conversation, the language of a country or a place or a nation, the local idiom which derives from a dominant language”), from διαλέγομαι (dialégomai, “I participate in a dialogue”), from διά (diá, “inter, through”) + λέγω (légō, “I speak”).