As a patois, or colloquial language, slang is permeated with rich local color and flavor. It covers a wide linguistic scope, including local dialect, jargon, cant, and blasphemy.(俚語是通俗的口頭語，帶有濃郁的地方色彩和民間韻味。它的存在十分廣泛，其中包括土語、行話、隱語、暗語、黑話、禁語。)

The rhythms the patois you know...(節奏，行話，你知道的。)

In France patois was spoken in rural, less developed regions.(在法國，欠發達的農村地區說自己的方言。)

Local languages still exist alongside the Caribbean English dialect, too, but they are mostly the patois of the marketplace and home.(當地的語言也仍然和加勒比海式英語方言并存著，但它們大都是在市場和家里所用的土話。)

The author mainly analyzes verbs, adjectives, nouns and place nouns, and the special vocabulary of self-making words in the common patois words and expressions from Xiang' s fictions.(文章重點分析向本貴小說一般方言詞語中的動詞、形容詞、名詞和地域名詞，并分析了特殊詞語——自造詞。)

Some worry, however, that the island's unique patois known as Singlish could be lost, and with it an important cultural glue unifying the multiethnic, multi-religious city-state of 5.1 million people.(有些人擔心，當地獨特的方言土語，人稱“新”式英語的語言會消失。這種語言是重要的文化粘合劑，把這個多種種族、多種宗教信仰的城市國家的五百一十萬人民聯合起來。)

Of course, a great many also speak the Windows vernacular, although most are versed only in Windows' point-and-click patois.(當然，也有不少人說windows術語，盡管大多數人只掌握“指向和單擊”這樣的簡單詞匯。)

These are the town's taxi-drivers-okada riders, in the local patois-waiting for a fare.(這些都是城市正在等著旅客的出租車司機——用當地的行話說，他們都是歐卡達騎士。)

It's extremely interesting if you can ever get a chance to meetsomeone who speaks Patois and for someone who speaks French. You will never be able tounderstand them even if you speak French.(這其實非常有意思，如果你有機會認識說克里奧爾語的人，即使你會說法語，你也無法明白他們在說什么。)

He speaks the local patois.(他會說當地方言。)