language
n. 语言, 文字, 措辞 [计] 语言
发音
词形变化
释义与例句
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A body of words, and set of methods of combining them (called a grammar), understood by a community and used as a form of communication.
语言
话
可数 不可数The English and German languages are both members of the West Germanic language family.
Deaf and mute people communicate using sign language.
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The ability to communicate using words.
语言
不可数 可数the gift of language
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A sublanguage: the slang of a particular community or jargon of a particular specialist field.
语言
用语
词语
不可数 可数legal language; the language of chemistry
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The specific wording or style of a text, such as a law or a contract.
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The expression of thought (the communication of meaning) in a specified way; that which communicates something, as language does.
语言
可数 比喻 不可数body language; the language of the eyes
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A body of sounds, signs or signals by which animals communicate, and by which plants are sometimes also thought to communicate.
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A computer language; a machine language.
语言
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A manner of expression.
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The particular words used in a speech or a passage of text.
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用语
词语
不可数 可数The language used in the law does not permit any other interpretation.
The language he used to talk to me was obscene.
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Profanity.
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A languet, a flat plate in or below the flue pipe of an organ.
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To communicate by language; to express in language.
罕用 工程
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An admonishment said in response to someone using vulgar language during a conversation.
词汇关系
同义词 5
上位词 5
下位词 10
部分词 3
整体词 2
相关短语
词源
From Middle English langage, language, from Old French language, from Vulgar Latin *linguāticum, from Latin lingua (“tongue, speech, language”), from Old Latin dingua (“tongue”), from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s (“tongue, speech, language”). Doublet of langaj. Displaced native Old English ġeþēode.
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