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Collins Chinese-English Dictionary

语言 [yǔyán]
  1. 1. noun language

Comprehensive Chinese-English Dictionary

语言 [yǔyán]
  1. 1. language; tongue

Contemporary Standard Chinese Dictionary

语言 [yǔyán]
  1. 1. 以语音为物质外壳,由词汇和语法两部分构成的符号系统,是人类最重要的交际工具。人们利用它进行思维,交流思想,组织社会生产,开展社会斗争,承载信息,传承文明。有口语和书面语两种形式。是一种特殊的社会现象。
  2. 2. 言语
    使用文明语言
    语言美。
  3. 3. 指用语言表达的思想观点
    双方经协商有了共同语言
  4. 4. 指某些特定领域内用来表示和交流信息及数据的非语音的符号系统。如计算机程序语言、舞蹈语言、数学语言

Examples

我们会用文学语言写文章, 却很少用文学语言讲话。
We can write in literary language, but we seldom speak that way. 文学语言
我激动的心情难以用语言来表达。
Words can hardly express my excitement. 表达
以毫不含糊的语言作出回答
answer in clear and unequivocal terms; answer in explicit language 不含糊
语言大众化
use the language of the ordinary people 大众化
恶毒的语言
vile language 恶毒
语言乏味
dull (or drab) language 乏味
语言文字学在清代还只是经学的附庸。
During the Qing Dynasty, philology was a mere handmaid of classical studies. 附庸
语言的隔阂
language barrier 隔阂
共同语言
common language 共同
浑朴的语言
plain and simple language 浑朴

Word Decomposition


[yǔ]
+
[yán]

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