1
- by word of mouth; spoken rather than written口头的, 口语的：
they had reached an oral agreement.
他们达成了口头协议。
1.1
- relating to the transmission of information or literature by word of mouth rather than in writing口述的：
oral literature.
口述文学。
1.2
- (of a society) not having reached the stage of literacy（社会）没有文字的。
2
- of or relating to the mouth（与）口（有关）的：
oral hygiene.
口腔卫生。
2.1
- done or taken by the mouth用口的, 口服的：
oral contraceptives.
口服避孕药。
2.2
- Psychoanalysis (in Freudian theory) relating to or denoting a stage of infantile psychosexual development in which the mouth is the main source of pleasure and the centre of experience【心理分析】口欲的, 口唇的。
- a spoken examination or test口试：
a French oral.
法语口试。
派生词
orally
adverb词源
early 17th cent.: from late Latin oralis, from Latin os, or- 'mouth'.