| 单词 | british english |
| 释义 | > as lemmasBritish English British English n. [compare earlier American English n.] the English language as spoken or written in Britain, as contrasted with those forms used in the United States or other English-speaking countries; abbreviated BE, BrE. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Germanic > English > British English British English1867 1867 Galaxy May 102 This peculiarity of British English passes very gradually away as social and mental culture increase. 1892 H. Sweet New Eng. Gram. i. 224 The influence of the vulgar London or ‘Cockney’ dialect is stronger in Australasian than in British English. 1932 R. W. Chapman ‘Oxford’ Eng. 540 This expression may be current in America, but it is not British English. 1967 ‘J. Cross’ To Hell for Half-a-crown x. 130 The English that Neumann was babbling was not..British English..but American. 2004 Publishers Weekly Rev. (Nexis) 9 Aug. 240 The efforts of Americans such as Noah Webster to differentiate American from British English. < as lemmas |
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