| 释义 |
MandarinMandarin noun [uncountable]   MandarinOrigin: 1700-1800 mandarin - For you, the Mandarin Club guest, breakfast in the morning and cocktails in the evening are with our compliments.
- He was a matinee-handsome man who could have been an actor on the Mandarin stage.
- I would have been great as a chef, a Mandarin actor, or a fence post.
- Most speak Cantonese, with a little Mandarin and Hakka also spoken.
- The most widely spoken of these is Mandarin with about 800m speakers.
- The pronunciations given for these components, and for the characters of which they form part, are those of present-day Mandarin.
- This was before I had the clips that translated into expense accounts and hotels like the Shangri-la or the Mandarin.
► Languagesaccented, adjectiveAfrikaans, nounAnglo-Saxon, nounArabic, nounBengali, nounbilingual, adjectiveCantonese, nounChinese, nounconversant, adjectivecreole, nounDanish, noundialect, noundictation, noundirect method, noundub, verbDutch, nounEnglish, nounEsperanto, nounFarsi, nounFlemish, nounfluent, adjectiveFrancophone, adjectiveFranglais, nounFrench, adjectiveGaelic, nounGerman, nounGermanic, adjectiveGreek, nounHebraic, adjectiveHebrew, nounHindi, nounIndo-European, adjectiveItalian, nounItalo-, prefixJapanese, nounLatin, nounLatin, adjectivelinguist, nounlinguistics, nounMandarin, nounMaori, nounmodern language, nounmonolingual, adjectivemother tongue, nounmultilingual, adjectivenative speaker, nounoral, nounpatois, nounPersian, nounPolish, adjectivePortuguese, nounRomance language, nounRomany, nounRussian, nounSanskrit, nounsecond language, nounSemitic, adjectivesign, nounsign, verbsign language, nounSinhalese, nounSpanish, nounspeak, verb-speak, suffixspeaker, nounSwedish, nountransliterate, verbTurkish, nounUrdu, nounusage, nounvernacular, nounvocabulary, nounWelsh, noun VERB► speak· The most widely spoken of these is Mandarin with about 800m speakers. the official language of China, spoken by most educated Chinese people |