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词汇 language
释义 language
noun
uk /ˈlæŋ.ɡwɪdʒ/ us /ˈlæŋ.ɡwɪdʒ/
A1[ U ]
a system of communication consisting of sounds, words, and grammar: 语言
She does research into how children acquire language.她研究儿童是如何习得语言的。
This type of parent-child interaction is associated with language learning in infancy.
[ C ]
a system of communication used by people living in a particular country:
Do you speak any foreign languages?"
I'm hopeless at learning languages.
the English language英语
Compare
tongue(LANGUAGE)literary
dialect
[ C ]
a system of symbols and rules for writing instructions for computers:
Java and Perl are both important computer programming languages.
[ U ]
the way that someone speaks or writes, for example, the kind of words and phrases that they use:
No one wants to hear foul language coming from the mouths of children.
In interviews, he was fond of flowery language.
He said some of the language appeared inflammatory and biased.
[ U ]
the special words and phrases used by people who do a particular type of work:
legal/technical language
the language of business
[ U ]informal
rude or offensive words:
My mother wouldn't let us watch it because of the language.
Less of that language, please!
She's studying modern Japanese language and culture.她在研究现代日本语言和文化。
Unable to speak a word of the language, he communicated with his hands.
We were encouraged to learn foreign languages at school.在校时,学校鼓励我们学习外语。
Her novels have been translated into 19 languages.她的小说已被译成19种语言。
One of the main reasons I came to England was to study the language.我到英格兰的主要原因之一是学习语言。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Linguistic terms & linguistic style
accentual
affricate
allophone
allophony
anaphor
contextualize
easy read
emphatic
entailment
etymological
etymologically
inflected language
parataxis
pathetic fallacy
philological
philologically
polysemy
portmanteau word
stylistics
tautology

You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:


Computer programming & software
Ways of speaking
Swearing and blasphemy

Grammar



Nationalities, languages, countries and regions
When we refer to a nation or region, we can use: …

Idiom


speak/talk the same language

language | American Dictionary


language
noun[ C/U ]
us/ˈlæŋ·ɡwɪdʒ/
a system of communication by speaking, writing, or making signs in a way that can be understood, or any of the different systems of communication used in particular regions:
[ C ]the English language
[ C ]American Sign Language
[ C ]He speaks six foreign languages.
[ U ]Her language skills are excellent.
Language is also a particular type of expression:
[ U ]beautiful language
[ U ]foul language (= offensive words)
In computer programming, a language is a system of writing instructions for computers.

language | Business English


language
noun[ C or U ]
uk /ˈlæŋɡwɪdʒ/us
COMMUNICATIONS
the method of human communication that uses speaking and writing, or the system of communication in speaking and writing that is used by the people of a particular country:
learn/understand a languageIt's easier to learn a language when you're younger.
speak/use a language35% of residents speak a language other than English at home.
Many British people speak no foreign languages.
in a languageBusiness deals often go more smoothly if you can speak to people in their own language.
Too many children leave school with poor language skills, unable to compose a letter or email.
The company offers language classes for employees posted abroad.
COMMUNICATIONS
a particular style of speaking or writing, for example, one that is used by the people doing a particular job:
When you are giving instructions, make sure you use language that everyone can understand.
the language of sthThey speak the language of international finance.
IT
written instructions, for example, rules and symbols, given to a computer so it can understand what the user wants it to do:
This version of the UNIX language serves as a software platform for computer programs.
 speak/talk the same language
to understand someone because you have the same way of thinking about things, or of doing things:
Our businesses complement each other, and we speak the same language.

See also


assembly language
body language
computer language
machine language
object language
official language
programming language
world language

Examples of language


language
Understanding the link between joint attention and language.
English, by contrast, is a language in which argument omission is not permitted.
There are three fields of language planning - status, corpus, and, acquisition - and three types of actors: individuals, communities, and states.
Thus, there is a qualitative difference between the outcome of language contact with respect to at least one point: the past participles.
These forms will be useful to researchers and clinicians who are seeking a quick assessment of early language.
Or does 'ordinary language' mean something different from a 'natural and easy way of expression'?
We do not simply, through being rational and knowing ordinary language, 'know' the meaning of all necessary moral words.
Despite the fundamental role phonetic representations play in language acquisition, there has been very little research on their development in a bilingual context.
In terms purely of logic and expediency, the argument in favour of a single language is difficult to oppose.
First, the language includes arrays of purely functional values.
In a language-learning situation with restricted availability to the target language, such a system would likely be predicted purely on the grounds of transfer.
In 2005, 89.5 per cent of pupils chose it as their first foreign language.
In studying the psychological effects of bilingualism, the time and circumstances of individuals' experiences with different languages and sociocultural settings should be carefully examined.
How far can the number of working languages be reduced?
Using the connection between language and reasoning to improve concept generation may assist in reducing the overall cost in the product realization cycle.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.

Collocations withlanguage


language

These are words often used in combination with language.

Click on a collocation to see more examples of it.


alien language
The already beleaguered common worker was further entangled in the alien language of rules and regulations to fight for his rights.
classical language
This label is the name for the rule, and it is also a term in the classicallanguage.
coarse language
No wonder, either, that the text's occasionally coarse language was bowdlerized.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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