modern vernacular

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  • 白话
  • modern adj.现代的;时髦的n.现代人;时尚人士
  • vernacular n.【C】本地话;方言
    1. We all speak in the vernacular and so does Chiang Kai-shek.
      白话没有阶级性,我们这些人演说讲白话,蒋介石也讲白话。
    2. Orally it is worse, for most of them are at home only in the Cantonese dialect, and even this is often spoken in a mixture of the vernacular and English words.
      口语上更差,因他们大多数人在香港只讲粤语方言,甚至说话经常夹杂白话和英文单词。