核心畫面

Think of a room where a group of people talk to each other all day — a hospital, a courtroom, a fishing harbour, a game chat. Over time their words settle into a set that fits their work. Parlance is a name for that set: how these people say things. Almost every time you meet the word today it is doing one job — handing you a term out of one of those rooms and telling you whose room it came from.

parlance 可以想成一個房間裡的人整天講話的樣子。醫院、法庭、漁港、遊戲聊天室,各有各的房間。時間久了,他們的更多收起parlance 可以想成一個房間裡的人整天講話的樣子。醫院、法庭、漁港、遊戲聊天室,各有各的房間。時間久了,他們的用字會定下來,變成一整套屬於自己的講法。parlance 就是這整套講法的名字。今天你遇到這個字,它幾乎都在做同一件事:把一個詞從某個房間裡拿出來遞給你,順便說明它是誰的詞。

From the word’s history

Parlance came from Anglo-Norman parlance, built from parler 'to talk' plus the ending -ance. Its literal sense is simply 'the talking' — a name for how speaking is done rather than for any one word.

parlance 來自盎格魯-諾曼語,由 parler(說話)加上字尾 -ance 組成,字面就是「說話這件事」。可以想成:這個字從一開始講的就不是某一個詞,而是「怎麼開口」這整件事。

Wiktionary entry 'parlance' (kaikki extract, source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1020633051): Middle English *parlaunce < Anglo-Norman parlance < parler + -ance.

From the picture

那群人就是「大家」

框架完全一樣,只是填進去的那群人換成所有人,於是對照的對象從「外行人」變成「官方名稱」。

noun · C2

Used in the phrase 'in common parlance' to say that this is what ordinary people call something, rather than its official or technical name.

一般人的說法

Also in this word

noun · C2

A way of speaking: the words and phrases a particular group of people use, especially the ones tied to their work, their place or their interests.

說法/用語

noun · C2

Used in the pattern 'in ... parlance' to say that the words being quoted are the ones a particular group of people — a job, a trade, an army, a sport — use among themselves.

(某行業的)說法