dialect: n.1.方言,地方话。2.【语言学】语支。3.(某人的)谈吐,语调。4.(某职业的)专业用语。短语和例子the Lancashire dialect 兰开夏的方言。 English is an Indo -European dialect. 英语是印欧语的一支。 the lawyer's dialect 律师用语。dialectal adj.
In an application to the study of chinese dialects , we have undertaken data processing and map making for dozens of linguistic items by computer 此项研究的主要工具是数据库和方言地图,而如何设计数据库是本研究的第一个关键问题。