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colloquial

/kuh-loh-kwee-uhl/US // kəˈloʊ kwi əl //UK // (kəˈləʊkwɪəl) //

通俗易懂,通俗,通俗的,通俗地说

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : characteristic of or appropriate to ordinary or familiar conversation rather than formal speech or writing; informal.
    • : involving or using conversation.

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Examples

  • What people have suffered during the pandemic is “touch hunger,” a colloquial term for what social scientists call “affection deprivation”, a state in which individuals want or need more affection than they receive.

  • Descent of Woman fit well into a genre of colloquial science that aimed to present scientific arguments to readers with common sense but little scientific training.

  • Other linguistic variations that challenge AI include different slang or colloquial expressions to convey similar meanings and other paralinguistic features like tone, intonation, pacing, pausing, and pitch.

  • Color has not disclosed a valuation with recent rounds, making this the first official confirmation that the company is a “unicorn,” a colloquial industry term for a private startup worth over $1 billion.

  • And, hey, the name Finimondo — “the end of the world” — seems appropriate for these times, though the importer explains that the name is a colloquial expression meaning the wine is terrific.

  • A hypothetical history of how words become part of the colloquial lexicon.

  • There are no naked bodies (at least in the colloquial sense).

  • The lanky, scandal-scarred former Congressman and purveyor of the now colloquial sext, has lived and died by the tweet.

  • In Austria, schnaps is a colloquial term that historically references distilled fruit brandy.

  • To use an US Army colloquial term, he is a "No Go" for the cabinet post.

  • "All they can rap and run for" is the more frequent colloquial version of this quaint phrase.

  • The brilliance of his wife, and her most fascinating colloquial powers, also reflected much luster upon his name.

  • He had traveled over Europe, and parts of the East, and possessed great colloquial powers when inclined to be sociable.

  • In the Attic poetry which was written in direct imitation of colloquial speech, viz.

  • A "growler" is a colloquial term applied to icebergs of small mass, which therefore only show a small portion above the surface.

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