colloquial
口语
definition
adjective
I had four or five Chinese dialects at my disposal, phrases in colloquial English, and of course, Malay.
(of language) used in ordinary or familiar conversation; not formal or literary.
example
She taught 'colloquial' English at Tsuruga College in Japan at the age of 16 as part of an exchange program.
This is the origin of the 'colloquial' use of ‘coconut’ to refer to one's head.
Second, the Arabic tutor will most likely be teaching you a 'colloquial' form of Arabic rather than modern standard Arabic.
In some places the use of more 'colloquial' language seems to work and not detract from the original gospels, but in other places it came across to me as contrived.
The production cries out for a better translation than the uncredited one that veers between stilted and 'colloquial' .
Shepard has a gift for combining lyrical description with a 'colloquial' voice.
Either it was done in a great hurry, or the translator has only a passing acquaintance with 'colloquial' English.
Ira had a great ear for 'colloquial' language, especially the language of sports.
I had four or five Chinese dialects at my disposal, phrases in 'colloquial' English, and of course, Malay.
Her ear for 'colloquial' phrases and conversational interplay is equally impressive.
The language is often 'colloquial' and vigorous.
His highly 'colloquial' use of the language had seemed cute at first.
It is to this group of ancient hominids that the term ‘ape man’ is most commonly applied today, but the term is informal or 'colloquial' .
If I need to respond, I do so in 'colloquial' English using my thickest Northern accent.
He uses refined 'colloquial' language with a rhythm that is light and quick, an unhesitating flow that propels the poem and carries the reader.
A boom is a 'colloquial' term for an economy that is expanding above the GDP's average annual growth.
In all these collections, Neruda turns to a simple style and 'colloquial' language to talk about objects of everyday life.
However, until the 1920s, few local recipe books used the 'colloquial' name, and then sometimes only as a subtitle.
Often they alone preserved the 'colloquial' speech, the real language of everyday use.
Your purchase is rational in the normal, 'colloquial' sense of the word but not necessarily in the social science meaning.
To find your real e-mail, you must wade through the torrent of fraud and obscenity known politely as " unsolicited bulk e-mail " and 'colloquially' as spam.
Put 'colloquially' , the vision of multiculturalism is that you don't have to be same to be equal.
Unchecked, it leads to changes in posture, particularly in the form of a hunched back known 'colloquially' as dowager's hump, and decreased mobility.
I know I can write 'colloquially' but I really do lose confidence when I have to prepare formal briefing papers.
Countries in permanent crisis, with the population at subsistence level, more or less chaotic, but without total civil strife, are known 'colloquially' as ‘basket cases’.
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