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词汇
cí huì
Meaning
- vocabulary
- list of words (e.g. for language teaching purposes)
Definition
词和短语的总称；语言中所有词和固定短语的总和。
Total set of words and phrases in a language; vocabulary.
Usage
通常用来指某一语言或某人所掌握的全部词语，也可指特定领域或文本的用词集合。
Generally used to refer to the complete set of words in a language or an individual's word knowledge; also for lexicon of a specific field or text.
Examples
- 1 学习一门外语，首先要积累大量的词汇。 (To learn a foreign language, you must first accumulate a large vocabulary.)
- 2 这篇文章的词汇比较专业，需要查字典。 (The vocabulary of this article is quite specialized; you need to consult a dictionary.)
- 3 他的词汇量很大，所以写作时表达很丰富。 (He has a large vocabulary, so his writing is very expressive.)
- 4 现代汉语词汇中，有很多是从古代汉语继承而来的。 (Many words in modern Chinese vocabulary are inherited from classical Chinese.)
- 5 英语词汇中来自法语的词汇比例很高。 (A high proportion of English vocabulary comes from French.)
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