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language

英 ['læŋgwɪdʒ] 美 ['læŋɡwɪdʒ]

这里集中整理“language”的音标、翻译、词源、例句和近反义词,方便快速确认词义并顺手做词汇积累。

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词汇关系

近义词 dialecttonguevernacularspeechtalk 、discourse

词义详解

  • n. 语言;语言文字;表达能力

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词态变化


复数: languages;

中文词源


language 语言

来自拉丁语lingua,舌头,语言,词源同tongue,linguist.

英文词源


language
language: [13] Like English tongue, Latin lingua ‘tongue’ was used figuratively for ‘language’; from it English gets linguist [16] and linguistic [19]. In the Vulgar Latin spoken by the inhabitants of Gaul, the derivative *linguāticum emerged, and this became in due course Old French langage, source of English language. (The u in the English word, which goes back to the end of the 13th century, is due to association with French langue ‘tongue’.)
=> linguistic
language (n.)
late 13c., langage "words, what is said, conversation, talk," from Old French langage (12c.), from Vulgar Latin *linguaticum, from Latin lingua "tongue," also "speech, language" (see lingual). The form with -u- developed in Anglo-French. Meaning "a language" is from c. 1300, also used in Middle English of dialects:
Mercii, þat beeþ men of myddel Engelond[,] vnderstondeþ bettre þe side langages, norþerne and souþerne, þan norþerne and souþerne vnderstondeþ eiþer oþer. [John of Trevisa, translation of Bartholomew de Glanville's "De proprietatibus rerum," 1398]



In oþir inglis was it drawin, And turnid ic haue it til ur awin Language of the norþin lede, Þat can na noþir inglis rede. ["Cursor Mundi," early 14c.]
Language barrier attested from 1933.

双语例句


1. The Ukrainians speak a Slavonic language similar to Russian.
乌克兰人所说的那种斯拉夫语系的语言类似于俄语。

来自柯林斯例句

2. The language of Darwin was intelligible to experts and non-experts alike.
达尔文的语言无论对专家还是非专业人士而言都明白易懂。

来自柯林斯例句

3. His misunderstanding of language was the primary cause of his other problems.
他对语言的误解是引起其他问题的主要原因。

来自柯林斯例句

4. We were forbidden, under pain of imprisonment, to use our native language.
我们被禁止使用母语,违者将被关进监狱。

来自柯林斯例句

5. All cheques should be made out to "EF International Language Schools"
所有支票的收款人都应是“英孚国际语言学校”。

来自柯林斯例句

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