You can picture 'oral' as pointing straight at the mouth. Everything the word covers passes through the mouth: things spoken by it, things taken into it, tests answered out loud with it.
From the word’s history
From Latin os (stem or-) 'mouth', via oralis 'of the mouth'. The mouth is the literal core; 'spoken' and 'taken by mouth' and 'a spoken exam' are all just what happens at that one opening.
來自拉丁文 os（詞幹 or-，意思是『嘴』），經 oralis（嘴的）而來。『嘴』就是這個字最字面的核心；不管是『用說的』、『從口服用』還是『口試』，都只是在這張嘴上發生的事。
etymonline.com/word/oral (Online Etymology Dictionary)
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原始詞典資料15 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Oralname詞源 1
- 1
A male given name from Latin of American usage
Oralname詞源 2
- 1
A city in Kazakhstan.
oraladj/ˈɔː.ɹəl/
- 1
Relating to the mouth.
- oral hygiene
- oral sex
- 2
medicinepharmacologysciencesRelating to the mouth.
- And most neurologists are in the habit of prescribing antispasticity drugs like tizanidine and baclofen, which are oral and inexpensive, but which cause drowsiness and weaken every muscle in the body, not just the target ones.
- 3
human-scienceslinguisticsphoneticsRelating to the mouth.
- 4
human-sciencesmedicinepsychoanalysisRelating to the mouth.
- 5
Relating to the mouth.
- 6
Spoken rather than written.
- an oral presentation
- an oral French exam
- 7
Spoken rather than written.
- 8
Spoken rather than written.
另外 1 個記錄的用法
- 9
human-scienceslinguisticssciencesSpoken rather than written.
oralnoun/ˈɔː.ɹəl/
- 1
A spoken test or examination, particularly in a language class.
- We've got our Spanish oral tomorrow.
- 2
A physical examination of the mouth.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
- oral sex
- oral steroid
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。