utterance

/ˈətərəns/

the use of uttered sounds for auditory communication

中文释义：话语；发声

His first utterance after the accident was a question about his family.

事故后他说的第一句话是询问家人的情况。

Linguists study the structure of utterances in different languages.

语言学家研究不同语言中话语的结构。