| 释义 |
Lolo|ˈləʊləʊ|
[Native name.]
The name of an aboriginal people of south-western China, of a member of this people, and of their Tibeto-Burmese language. Also attrib. or as adj.
1736R. Brookes tr. Du Halde's Gen. Hist. China I. 59 The Nation of the Lolos rul'd in Yun nan, and was govern'd by different Sovereigns. 1878H. A. Giles Gloss. Far East 81 Lolos, wild hill tribes of Szechuan and Yünnan. 1898A. R. Colquhoun China in Transformation i. 24 It is clear there are but three great non-Chinese races in Southern China—the Lolo, the Shan and the Miao-tzu. 1901E. H. Parker China i. 8 Among the mountains of north-east Yün Nan and south Sz Ch'wan, the powerful confederation of so-called Lolo tribes still maintains its independence. 1933L. Bloomfield Lang. iv. 70 The other two groups [of Tibeto-Burman], Bodo-Naga-Kachin and Lo-lo, consist of lesser dialects. 1937E. Snow Red Star over China v. 194 Moving..into Szechuan..[the Reds] soon entered the tribal country of warlike aborigines, the White and Black Lolos of Independent Lololand. 1948D. Diringer Alphabet i. ix. 141 The languages of the Lolo-Mo-so group belong to the Tibeto-Burmese sub-family of the Tibeto-Chinese family of languages... Lolo is itself a sub-group of various languages, spoken by about 1,800,000 people in the south-western provinces of China. 1966R. & D. Morris Men & Pandas iii. 47 Lieutenant J. W. Brooke was murdered in 1910 by the Lolos. 1968Encycl. Brit. V. 567/2 The Tibeto-Burman branch of the Tibeto-Chinese language family falls into three groups: the Tibetan, the Yi (formerly called Lolo) and the Kachin. |