Vocabulary

词汇

Linguistics uses this term in its everyday sense, reserving for its technical study the use of terms beginning with lexi-. A distinction is often made, especially in language learning, between active and passive vocabulary: the former refers to lexical items people use; the latter to words which they understand, but do not themselves use.

语言学按日常涵义使用这一名称，而用lexi-起头的词作为语言学的专门术语。通常将词汇分为主动词汇和被动词汇，特别在语言教学中：前者指人们实际使用的词项，后者指自己理解但并不使用的词。