| 释义 |
Mende, n. and a.|ˈmɛndiː|
Also Mendi.
A. n.
a. A group of Negro peoples inhabiting Sierra Leone and Liberia; a member of this group.
b. The language of the Mende.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to the Mende or their language.
1887Encycl. Brit. XXII. 44/2 The following are the more important races [of Sierra Leone] that can be distinctly classified..Mendis, 3088. 1908T. G. Tucker Introd. Nat. Hist. Lang. 147 Mende, of Upper Guinea, including dialects of Mandingo, Bambara, etc. 1911Encycl. Brit. XVI. 542/1 Some of the Krumen are coarse and ugly, and this is the case with the Mende people. 1936G. Greene Journey without Maps i. iii. 62 He could speak Mende; he was picking up Buzie. 1948― Heart of Matter i. i. i. 7 His Mende sergeant clicked his heels. 1957C. MacInnes City of Spades 216 Mr. Karl Marx Bo..planned to send..a tendentious report on the trial to the Mendi newspaper of which he was part-time correspondent. 1970P. Oliver Savannah Syncopators 112 Mende, Sierra Leone tribe situated near the coast. 1971E. Jones in J. Spencer Eng. Lang. W. Afr. 68 The official news bulletin put out daily over the Sierra Leone Broadcasting Service by the Ministry of Information, as well as other important government statements, are broadcast in Krio as well as English, Mende and Temne. 1972J. L. Dillard Black English iii. 130 There will probably never be any reliable evidence as to whether the slaves themselves differentiated between the Vai-Hausa forms and the Mende form in pronunciation. 1974Times 4 May (Suppl.) p. i/6 Typically a [Sierra Leonean] minister will be a Mende or a Temne with a Creole permanent-secretary. |