| 释义 |
Kachin|kəˈtʃɪn|
[Burmese.]
A member of a Tibeto-Burman ethnic group inhabiting the mountainous regions of north-east Burma; its language group, which includes Chingpaw, Atsi, Maru, etc. Also attrib.
1892W. R. Winston Four Yrs. Upper Burma 102 In the north of Burma..are found the Kachins, a warlike hill people. 1903G. A. Grierson Linguistic Survey of India III. ii. (title) Specimens of the Bodo, Nāgā, and Kachin groups. 1906O. Hanson (title) A dictionary of the Kachin language. 1925Blackw. Mag. Dec. 864/1 The reiterated word accented in Kachin is most descriptive. 1934‘G. Orwell’ Burmese Days xiv. 211 Producing two green pigeons from his Kachin bag. 1962[see Chin n.2]. 1963C. Maxwell-Lefroy Land & People of Burma vii. 47 Warm green tea,..shyly handed to us by a pretty Kachin girl. 1970F. S. V. Donnison Burma ii. 47 The Kachins are nine-tenths Animists and the rest Christians. |