| 单词 | pidgin |
| 释义 | pidgin (once / 21258 pages) n PIdgin is a simple form of a commonly spoken language that's used by people who aren't fluent, for communicating basic information. If you're visiting Mexico but you don't speak Spanish, you may use a kind of pidgin to talk to locals — a combination of Spanish and English. Or the locals may speak a pidgin version of English to communicate with you. Most pidgins include various elements of different languages in addition to the primary source of vocabulary — but they're all made up. Pidgin itself is a pidgin term, "from a Chinese pronunciation of business." WORD FAMILYpidgin: pidgins USAGE EXAMPLESThe engineers spoke Chinese, Vietnamese, Polish, Russian, Arabic, German and Japanese, though they mostly spoke in their own efficient pidgin and in math. New York Times(Dec 14, 2016) At the Beacon, people danced, even to mid-tempo album songs like “Pidgin English” and “Human Hands.” The New Yorker(Nov 30, 2016) Obiora said, rising, the fear in his eyes not quite shielded by the brazen manliness in his pidgin English. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Purple Hibiscus(2003) n an artificial language used for trade between speakers of different languages Hypo|Hyper Chinook Jargon, Oregon Jargon a pidgin incorporating Chinook and French and English words; formerly used as a lingua franca in northwestern North America artificial language a language that is deliberately created for a specific purpose |
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