``What!'' said the Hon. Sam, rising to his feet, his eyes twinkling and his mask of humor on again; ``sees this masked springal''--the Hon. Sam seemed much enamored of that ancient word--``no maid so fair that he will not beg from her the boon of colors gay that he may carry them to victory and receive from her hands a wreath therefor?'' Again the Knight of the Cumberland seemed not to know that the Hon. Sam's winged words were meant for him, so the statesman translated them into a mutual vernacular.英文原著 · 《A Knight of the Cumberland》
"Well, that is a big word for a small transaction; you have not dug in the mine of the vernacular for nothing."英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
Upstairs, at the grand table, old circumnavigators went so far as to relate droll stories, in the vernacular.英文原著 · 《AN ICELAND FISHERMAN》
And after a pause he added: ``I do not attempt to send any young man enough for all his expenses. But I want to save him from bitterness, and each check will help. And, too,'' he concluded, navely, in the vernacular, ``I don't want them to lay down on me!''英文原著 · 《Acres of Diamonds》
Jane's efforts to comfort were always maladroit, yet the apparent situation so interested her that she yielded to her inclination to talk. "Say," she began, and Alida was too dejected and weary to correct the child's vernacular, "Mr. Holcroft's got somethin' on his mind."英文原著 · 《He Fell In Love With His Wife》
And now, though fairly off from Norway, and on our homeward way, it was a tedious business--what with fogs, calms, and headwinds--working towards Copenhagen. We rounded the Scaw in a thick mist, saw the remains of four ships that had run aground upon it, and were nearly run into ourselves by a clumsy merchantman, whom we had the relief of being able to abuse in our native vernacular, and the most racy sea-slang.英文原著 · 《Letters From High Latitudes》
Your just, your just clearly not familiar with our young persons vernacular.美剧 · 《Friends》