单词 | bilingual |
释义 | bilingualbi‧lin‧gual /baɪˈlɪŋɡwəl/ ●●○ adjective ![]() ![]() EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatorwhen someone can speak more than one language► bilingual Collocations someone who is bilingual can speak two languages perfectly: · I'm bilingual - my mother was French.· Many of the pupils are bilingual in Welsh and English. ► somebody's second language your second language is a language that you speak well and often use, but not the first language that you learned as a child: · Halima was born in Kenya. Her first language is Swahili, and her second language is English. to speak a language► speak · Nadia speaks six languages.speak French/Japanese/Russian etc · Is there anyone here who can speak Arabic? ► know to be able to speak, read, and understand some of a particular foreign language: · I know enough Italian to travel around there.· Do you know any Polish? ► fluent very good at speaking a foreign language, so that you can speak it quickly without stopping and you understand it very well: fluent in English/German/Thai etc: · Applicants should be fluent in Cantonese.fluent French/Arabic/Japanese etc: · Ann speaks fluent Italian. ► bilingual able to speak two languages very well: · About 80 percent of the school's students are bilingual. ► multilingual able to speak several languages very well: · Many people who work at the European Parliament are multilingual. ► speaker someone who can speak a particular language: speaker of English/Russian/Arabic etc: · Speakers of Cantonese often cannot understand speakers of Mandarin.English/Spanish/Urdu etc speaker: · The hotel has two English speakers on its staff.native speaker (=learnt a particular language as their first language as a child): · All our English teachers are native speakers. WORD SETS► 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 COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY► bilingual education 1written or spoken in two languages: ![]() (=with translations from one language into another)· A bilingual dictionary is an essential purchase for anybody learning a foreign language. COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► child· Until we recognise the particular skills bilingual children bring to mathematics lessons, we are likely to continue to underestimate their abilities.· The distribution of bilingual children varies widely across the country, but the total numbers and diversity are certainly significant.· I have learned that there are no special practices or techniques we must learn in order to teach mathematics to our bilingual children. ► education· The Sandinistas quickly conceded the principle of bilingual education, and incorporated local languages into the 1980 literacy crusade.· Some educators pose the same kind of questions about Ebonics that have been raised about other bilingual education programs.· It also proposed bilingual education in schools and the creation of a secretariat of external relations and an environmental agency.· Here, in this otherwise familiar classroom, bilingual education is being practiced.· This means that bilingual education must be focused on from an early age and given a high profile throughout the school system.· More aid also is proposed for bilingual education, special education and school construction and repairs.· If this measure could indeed alienate Latinos, why do several recent polls show overwhelming support from Latinos for dismantling bilingual education? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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