1 N-COUNT 方言;土语;地方话 The vernacular is the language or dialect that is most widely spoken by ordinary people in a region or country. 方言;土语;地方话
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...books or plays written in the vernacular.
用方言写就的书或戏剧
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To use the vernacular of the period, Peter was square.
用那时的土话讲，彼得是个老古板。
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Most of these new sermons were recorded in literary Sanskrit rather than in vernacular language.
这些新的布道稿本大部分是用书面梵语而不是方言记载的。
SYN speech, jargon, idiom, parlance
2 ADJ [ADJ n] （建筑）民间风格的 Vernacular architecture is the style of architecture in which ordinary people's houses are built in a particular region. （建筑）民间风格的 [formal]
SYN colloquial, popular, informal, local
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