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parlance

/pahr-luhns/US // ˈpɑr ləns //UK // (ˈpɑːləns) //

口语,俗语,口头禅,口头语

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a way or manner of speaking; vernacular; idiom: legal parlance.
    • : speech, especially a formal discussion or debate.
    • : talk; parley.

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Examples

  • One of these battlegrounds is in Afghanistan and Pakistan, or Khorasan in jihadist parlance.

  • There’s also a whiff of volatile acidity that gives the flavors a little “lift,” in wine-geek parlance — this becomes more pronounced after the wine is opened for a few days.

  • Smith has observed that anti-vaccine sentiment transformed from what she thought was “a fringe belief” into common parlance over the summer.

  • In retail parlance, luxury-goods sales have been “underpenetrated” online, but the pandemic is changing that.

  • Rockaway, in surfing parlance, is a left-handed beach break, or jetty break.

  • But Scott, in taking the parlance of the street to the SportsCenter desk, helped affirm its ascendance.

  • It always surprises you to hear the Arabic pronunciation of words that have entered American parlance.

  • Reviews seemed to range a short spectrum between turnip (a dud, in the French parlance) and not-a-complete-turnip.

  • The campaign finance laws at issue in these cases are what, in First Amendment parlance, are known as content-neutral.

  • Dr. Tanning assured me that these feelings were not just ANTS (“automatic negative thoughts,” in therapy parlance).

  • In vulgar parlance this book is not your own or our own, but "yourn" or "ourn," or it may be "hisn" or "hern."

  • A filler, be it known, in technical parlance means that portion of the tobacco of which the inside of the cigar is made.

  • In common parlance, the word Suyu was dropped, and the termination a in Anta was converted into is.

  • He touched nothing but what in commercial parlance is termed 'gilt-edged,' and of this he purchased almost daily for thirty years.

  • Then came the leadsman's long-drawn chant, once so familiar, the monotonous repeating in river parlance of the depths of water.