| 释义 |
ˌAnglo-ˈIrish, a. and n.
[f. Anglo-.]
A. adj. Of, pertaining to, or descended from both the English and the Irish.
1839T. C. Croker Pop. Songs of Ireland p. vi, The Anglo-Irish settlers degenerated. 1905Daily Chron. 8 Feb. 3/3 This Gaelic world..did immeasurably more for poetry than the Anglo-Irish spheres.
B. n.
a. Collectively, persons of English descent born or resident in Ireland, or descendants of mixed English and Irish parentage.
b. The English language as spoken or written in Ireland.
1792Burke Let. Wks. 1845 III. 507 Finding the Anglo-Irish highly animated with a spirit, which had shewn itself before. 1834Bancroft Hist. U.S. (1876) III. iv. 350 The Anglo-Irish could not intermarry with the Celts. 1927J. J. Hogan Eng. Lang. in Ireland 16 The Poems..present a full mirror of medieval Anglo-Irish as used about 1300, the time of its greatest extension. 1940L. Macneice Last Ditch 4 And the mist on the Wicklow hills Is close..As the Irish to the Anglo-Irish. |