1. linguistics 语言学
2. language 语言 语言文学
[例] People in different countries speak different languages.
3. sound 音
4. dialect 方言 土语
[例] John's dialect is hard for me to understand.
5. parlance 谈话 说法
[例] In naval parlance, the left side of a ship is the port side.
6. intonation 语调 声调
[例] It is a questioning intonation.
7. emphatic 语势强的 用力的
[例] He answered the question with an emphatic "No".
8. paraphrase 意译 改写
[例] Would you please paraphrase the speech in colloquial English.
9. syntax 句子构造 句法
10. symbol 符号 记号
11. suffix 后缀 下标
12. affix 词缀
13. prefix 前缀
14. root 词根
15. sentence 句子
16. lexical 词汇的
17. paraphasia 语言错乱 错语症
18. lingual 语言的
19. bilingual 能说两种语言的
[例] This is a bilingual dictionary.
20. phiology 语言学 文献学
21. semantics 语义学
22. phonetic 语音的 语音学的
23. syllable 音节
24. parisyllabic 音节数目相同的 同等音节的
25. phonemics 音位学
26. coinage 创造
[例] The government has the right of coinage.
27. abridge 缩短 删节
28. excerpt 摘录
[例] The actor auditioned by performing an excerpt of the play.
29. adaptation 改写
[例] The movie was an adaptation of a classic novel.
30. emend 修订
[例] John had spent a whole day emending a faulty text.
31. synopsis 大纲 梗概
[例] The history professor gave a synopsis of the events leading to World War 1.
32. tag 附加语 标签
33. genre 体裁 风格
34. succinct 简明的 简洁的
35. grammar 文法
[例] This is the best German grammar book I've seen.