colloquial
[kə'lokwɪəl]
a. 话, 口语, 口语体

1. Colloquial style or quality.
   口语体口语口语
2. This is a colloquial expression.
   通俗语。
3. He studies English colloquial style.
   研究口语体英语。

colloquial
[ adj ]
characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation
<adj.all>
wrote her letters in a colloquial stylethe broken syntax and casual enunciation of conversational English




Colloquial \Col*lo"qui*al\, a. [See {Colloqui}.]
Pertaining to, or used in, conversation, esp. common and
familiar conversation; conversational; hence, unstudied;
informal; as, colloquial intercourse; colloquial phrases; a
colloquial style. -- {Col*lo"qui*al*ly}, adv.

His [Johnson's] colloquial talents were, indeed, of the
highest order. --Macaulay.