n. 方言,土語;語調;[語]語支;專業用語;
?? dia在…之間+lect講,讀→在一部分人之間說→方言
"Cockney is the colourful dialect spoken in the East End of London."
倫敦方言是在倫敦東區講的頗有特色的地方語.
近義:argot, localism, patois, provincialism, regionalism, slang
反義:vernacular
vt.& vi. 懂,理解;
vt. 了解;默認;聽說;領會;
?? under(under)+stand→懂;了解;通曉;認為
"That's just an approximation, you understand."
你知道那僅僅是近似值。
近義:ideate, imagine, apprehend, interpret, assimilate, penetrate
反義:misapprehend, misconstrue, mishear, misinterpret, misrepresent, misread