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- （一般作the vernacular）the language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region本国语; 本地话; 方言：
he wrote in the vernacular to reach a larger audience.
为了赢得更多的读者, 他用本地话写作。
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- with adj. or noun modifier informal the terminology used by people belonging to a specified group or engaging in a specialized activity〈非正式〉行话; 术语：
mass noun gardening vernacular.园艺术语。
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- mass noun architecture concerned with domestic and functional rather than monumental buildings（建筑）民间风格：
buildings in which Gothic merged into farmhouse vernacular.
哥特式风格与农舍风格相融合的建筑。
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- (of language) spoken as one's mother tongue; not learned or imposed as a second language（语言）作为母语的; 本国语的; 本地话的; 方言的。
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- (of speech or written works) using such a language（话语或书面作品）用本国语的; 用本地话的; 用方言的：
vernacular literature.
用本地话创作的文学。
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- (of architecture) concerned with domestic and functional rather than monumental buildings（建筑）民间风格的。
派生词
vernacularism
nounvernacularity
nounvernacularize
（亦作-ise）verbvernacularly
adverb词源
early 17th cent.: from Latin vernaculus 'domestic, native' （from verna 'home-born slave'） + -AR1.