a particular way of using words or expressing yourself, for example one used by a particular group 说法;术语;用语 in common/legal/modern parlance 用普通/法律/现代用语 A Munro, in climbing parlance, is a Scottish mountain exceeding 3 000 feet. “芒罗” 在登山术语里是指高度超过 3 000 英尺的苏格兰山峰。 The word ‘modem’ entered common parlance in the 1990s. “modem”这个词在20世纪90年代开始流行。
Word Originlate 16th cent. (denoting speech or debate): from Old French, from parler ‘speak’, from Latin parabola ‘comparison’ (in late Latin ‘speech’).