英语词汇“mother english”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

Mother English n. the English language as a mother tongue or first language, spec. when viewed positively as a model of expression, esp. in terms of plainness and straightforwardness, or (later) with reference to Standard English as a model of correctness.

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1816 W. Scott Old Mortality Peroration, in Tales of My Landlord 1st Ser. IV. 346 O, ignorance! as if the vernacular article of our mother English were capable of declension!

a1834 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Wks. (1998) XII. 717 Ludicrous as these introductory Scraps of French appear, so instantly followed by good nervous mother-english.

1873 Harper's Mag. Sept. 613/1 Scholars are more able to quote Demosthenes and Cicero than to make a stirring speech in their own mother English.

1910 W. de la Mare Three Mulla-mulgars 107 That's mother-English, that is! Now we's beginning to unnerstand one another.

1960 J. Barth Sot-weed Factor i. i. 13 Ebenezer Cooke..who, like his friends-in-folly..had found the sound of Mother English more fun to game with than her sense to labor over.

1999 Herald (Glasgow) (Electronic ed.) 13 Jan. The purism of Mother English breeds a corresponding Puritanism among the natives kicking against her clutches. If Soyinka was patronised in Cambridge, he has been vilified in Lagos for corrupting Yoruba culture by writing in English in the first place.

单词	mother english
释义	> as lemmas Mother English Mother English n. the English language as a mother tongue or first language, spec. when viewed positively as a model of expression, esp. in terms of plainness and straightforwardness, or (later) with reference to Standard English as a model of correctness. ΚΠ 1816 W. Scott Old Mortality Peroration, in Tales of My Landlord 1st Ser. IV. 346 O, ignorance! as if the vernacular article of our mother English were capable of declension! a1834 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Wks. (1998) XII. 717 Ludicrous as these introductory Scraps of French appear, so instantly followed by good nervous mother-english. 1873 Harper's Mag. Sept. 613/1 Scholars are more able to quote Demosthenes and Cicero than to make a stirring speech in their own mother English. 1910 W. de la Mare Three Mulla-mulgars 107 That's mother-English, that is! Now we's beginning to unnerstand one another. 1960 J. Barth Sot-weed Factor i. i. 13 Ebenezer Cooke..who, like his friends-in-folly..had found the sound of Mother English more fun to game with than her sense to labor over. 1999 Herald (Glasgow) (Electronic ed.) 13 Jan. The purism of Mother English breeds a corresponding Puritanism among the natives kicking against her clutches. If Soyinka was patronised in Cambridge, he has been vilified in Lagos for corrupting Yoruba culture by writing in English in the first place. extracted from mothern.¹int. < as lemmas
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