2.[countableC]SL a phrase, especially one used in a particular area or by a particular group of people 〔某领域或某群体使用的〕惯用语;行话
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locution• Speech act theoryassumes that there is one neat, verbally expressible illocution to each locution.• Petrey seems to equatelocution with semantics and illocution with pragmatics, but does not say so explicitly.• His locutionpuzzled me, disturbed me, but I was a guest at his table so I said nothing.• It seemed an extremely oddlocution for a scientist to be using about contaminated water.• This is most serious during the discussion of locution and illocution.• Even that locution, his appointment, seemed odd to him.• a Yiddishlocution