Vocabulary

(noun.) a language user's knowledge of words.

(noun.) the system of techniques or symbols serving as a means of expression (as in arts or crafts); 'he introduced a wide vocabulary of techniques'.

(noun.) a listing of the words used in some enterprise.

校对:雷明顿

• You must penetrate the ponderous vocabulary, the professional cant to the insight beneath or you scoff at the mountain ranges of words and phrases. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Their very vocabulary was unfamiliar to him, and seemed to belong to fiction and the stage. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• The great sin of sins, in her eyes,--the sum of all evils,--was expressed by one very common and important word in her vocabulary--shiftlessness. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• She had pronounced the word as if it had no more significance than any other in her vocabulary. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• We cannot expect to meet our problems with a few inherited ideas, uncriticised assumptions, a foggy vocabulary, and a machine philosophy. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• In controversy we do not try to find our opponent's meaning: we examine his vocabulary. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The capacity for telling things increased with their vocabulary. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Its voice was a little metallic, it is true, but here was presented an insignificant looking piece of mechanism which was undeniably a talking machine and one with an unlimited vocabulary. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• To him our schools are also indebted for the method of teaching foreign languages b y declensions, conjugations, vocabularies, formal rhetoric and annotations. 李贝. 西洋科学史.

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