dialect

• n. 方言，土话；同源语；行话；个人用语特征
• adj. 方言的

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。

1. the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people;

"the immigrants spoke an odd dialect of English"

"he has a strong German accent"

dialect

dialect: [16] The notion underlying dialect and its relatives dialectic [14] and dialogue [13] is of ‘conversation’. They come ultimately from Greek dialégesthai ‘converse’, a compound verb formed from the prefix dia- ‘with each other’ and légein ‘speak’ (source of English lecture and a wide range of related words). This formed the basis of two derived nouns.

First diálektos ‘conversation, discourse’, hence ‘way of speaking’ and eventually ‘local speech’, which passed into English via Latin dialectus and Old French dialecte (from it was produced the adjective dialektikós ‘of conversation, discussion, or debate’, which was eventually to become English dialectic). Secondly diálogos ‘conversation’, which again reached English via Latin and Old French.
=> lecture

dialect (n.)

1570s, "form of speech of a region or group," from Middle French dialecte, from Latin dialectus "local language, way of speaking, conversation," from Greek dialektos "talk, conversation, speech;" also "the language of a country, dialect," from dialegesthai "converse with each other," from dia- "across, between" (see dia-) + legein "speak" (see lecture (n.)).

language, speech, tongue, dialect, idiom, slang

这些名词均含"语言"之意。

language： 普通用词，含义广。指人的语言或文字，或动物的语言。既可指口头或书面语言，也可指手势语等。

speech： 特指人的口语，也指正式的讲话。

tongue： 书面用词，指人的语言，亦指人的母语。

dialect： 指一种语言中，某一地方所特有的语言形式，即方言。

idiom： 指一种语言中一般由几个词结合成短语或句子的特殊表达方式，即惯用语、成语。也指方言。

slang： 指俚语。

the Yorkshire dialect

约克郡方言

牛津词典

They began to speak rapidly in dialect.

他们开始叽里呱啦地说起地方话来。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

In the fifties, many Italians spoke only local dialect...

在 20 世纪 50 年代，许多意大利人只会说当地方言。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Though he belongs to the Miao ethnic group, he can no longer understand the Miao dialect.

他虽然是个苗族人, 但是已经听不懂苗语了.

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We also can't understand your dialect, find a southerner to shout to us.

我们也 听 不懂你们的口音.请找个南方人给我们喊话吧.

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Some one who speaks in a Beijing dialect wants you on the phone.

有个说北京话的人要你接电话。

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Its materials and Methods: Were for reference to Chinese history and modern Chinese dialect study.

其材料及方法可供汉语史和现代汉语方言研究参考.

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An ethnic language variety is a social dialect of a language, often cutting across regional differences.

一个少数民族的语言变体是一种语言的社会方言, 它经常存在于不同的地域差别之间.

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Luo Yusheng is famous for storytelling in a Beijing dialect to drum accompaniment.

骆玉笙是京韵大鼓的名家.

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To understand the local dialect.

能懂本地方言.

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Her talk smacks of Shanghai dialect.

她的言谈带有上海方言的味道.

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She speaks pure Shanghai dialect.

她的上海话说得真地道.

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Your idea of combining dialect with geographic analysis is unique.

结合方言的地理分析也很独到.

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Xuanwu dialect belongs to the East Henan Section of Central Plains Mandarin.

玄武方言属于中原官话的豫东片.

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But, the dialect is an ancient social intercourse information to leave behind, is a phonetic fossil.

但是, 方言是古代交际信息的遗留, 是语言的化石.

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The speakers of a social dialect usually share a similar social background.

同一种社会方言的使用者通常具有相同的社会背景.

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But Chen couldn't understand the local dialect.

但是陈夏勇听不懂这里的方言.

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As for a single code, the hidden codes in Liuzhou dialect are quite strange.

摘要柳州暗码单独来看, 往往很难理解为什么说得那样无理怪诞,若从全国各行业暗码来比较,就容易看出都在语言学的平常道理之内.

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Most scholars in Chinese dialectology believe that northern border of ancient Wu dialect is Huai River.

汉语方言学界一般认为古吴语北至淮河流域.

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Although in northern dialect areas in shandong province, but the mandarin dialects internal many own characteristics.

虽然处于北方官话方言区内, 但是山东方言区内部又有许多自己的特点.

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Some words in her dialect had a charming quaintness.

她说过的带有方言的一些话中有种可爱的意趣.

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Hakka people in all places usually take the Meixian dialect as the standard Hakka language.

各地客家人通常把梅县话作为客家话的标准语.

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Mainly transfers Huixian dialect ownership question and within the boundaries language nonuniformity.

主要交待了辉县方言的归属问题和境内语言的差异.

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Pls do not use dialect in your posts.

一定不可以用方言回帖.使用方言的扣分很重的. 请注意.

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There are some problems about the quotation of the dialect literature in Chinese Dialects Dictionary.

《汉语方言大词典》所引用的古方言文献书证存在的问题,分类例举,供词典编者和出版者再版修订时参考.

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He wrote a play in a local dialect.

他用当地方言写了一个剧本.

《简明英汉词典》

Can you speak the Shanghai dialect?

你会说上海话 吗 ?

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An old dialect of German mixed with English is used in church and at home.

上教堂和在家时,他们使用一种混合德语和英语的古老方言.

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The proportion of the population still speaking the dialect is very small.

只有少数居民仍使用这种方言.

辞典例句

Cockney is the colourful dialect spoken in the East End of London.

伦敦方言是在伦敦东区讲的颇有特色的地方语.

《现代汉英综合大词典》