| 单词 | pidgin english |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspidgin English pidgin English n. a pidgin in which the chief language is English. Also depreciative: a simplified, imperfect, or debased form of English.Chiefly used to denote the English-based pidgins of southern China and Melanesia. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > pidgins and creoles > [noun] > English-based > Pacific pidgin English1853 business English1855 Ningre Tongo1858 trade English1896 Pitcairnese1937 Tok Pisin1943 Sranan Tongo1953 Neo-Melanesian1955 1853 B. Taylor Let. 8 Sept. in N.Y. Daily Tribune (1854) 11 July 6/5 Whoever first invented the ‘pigeon English’, as it is called—the jargon used by foreigners in their intercourse with Chinese—deserves an immortality of ridicule. 1855 Knickerbocker June 574 A majority of the Chinese who have dealings with us outsiders, speak what is called by them ‘pigeon or business English’. 1872 A. D. Carlisle Round World x. 106 The dialect..current between Englishmen and Chinamen..goes by the name of Pigeon-English. 1891 Argus (Melbourne) 7 Nov. 13/4 That ridiculous pigeon-English which the whites have used..throughout Queensland..as their medium of communication with the blacks. 1943 T. W. Lawson Thirty Seconds over Tokyo vi. 82 We were afraid to believe what our new-found knowledge of pidgin-English and gesture-language was telling us. 1996 Independent 24 Feb. (Weekend section) 9/1 Often speaking only Kriol or pidgin English the aboriginal people of the Red Centre are not an easy subject to study. < as lemmas |
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