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

American English

noun [mass noun]

The English language as spoken and written in the US.This derives from Beijing Mandarin and is about as similar to that dialect as American English is to British English....

When we do read in translation, we are normally reading books translated into standard British English or standard American English.
The differences in words and meanings of words between British English and American English are a constant source of interest and amusement to me.

As well as differences from British English in spelling, pronunciation, and grammar, there are specifically American uses of words and meanings, principally: adoptions from languages with which the early settlers came in contact (moccasin, prairie), changes in meaning (corn, vest), survivals of 17th- and 18th-century English (gotten), and different words for the same referent (elevator for lift).

单词	American English
释义	American English noun [mass noun] The English language as spoken and written in the US.This derives from Beijing Mandarin and is about as similar to that dialect as American English is to British English.... When we do read in translation, we are normally reading books translated into standard British English or standard American English. The differences in words and meanings of words between British English and American English are a constant source of interest and amusement to me. As well as differences from British English in spelling, pronunciation, and grammar, there are specifically American uses of words and meanings, principally: adoptions from languages with which the early settlers came in contact (moccasin, prairie), changes in meaning (corn, vest), survivals of 17th- and 18th-century English (gotten), and different words for the same referent (elevator for lift).
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