| 单词 | mandarin |
| 释义 | mandarin (once / 6720 pages) 1n 2n Use the noun mandarin when you're talking about a powerful member of a government, company, or cultural group. In other words, don't mess with the mandarin. You can use mandarin to mean "bureaucrat," or an official who tends to make things complicated and who wields a lot of power. Another kind of mandarin is a respected cultural or academic figure: "My favorite philosophy professor is considered a mandarin on campus." Mandarin with a capital "M" refers to the language spoken in China. Originally, this word meant simply "Chinese official," from the Hindi root word mantrī, "counselor." WORD FAMILYmandarin: mandarins USAGE EXAMPLESTangerines were one of the first varieties of mandarins imported to the United States, arriving from Tangier, Morocco. Los Angeles Times(Dec 16, 2016) When I was growing up, I almost always heard Cantonese on the streets, while mandarin was the language of instruction at school. New York Times(Nov 23, 2016) It is inconceivable that policy mandarins in Delhi or their advisers in Kashmir could be unaware of the destructive power of “non-lethal weapons”. The Guardian(Nov 08, 2016) 1 1n a high public official of imperial China Hyper Chinese a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China 2n any high government official or bureaucrat Hyper functionary, official a worker who holds or is invested with an office 3n a member of an elite intellectual or cultural group 2Hyper elitist someone who believes in rule by an elite group 1n a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose skinned citrus of China Syn|Hypo|Hyper mandarin orange clementine a mandarin orange of a deep reddish orange color and few seeds satsumamedium-sized largely seedless mandarin orange with thin smooth skin tangerineany of various deep orange mandarins grown in the United States and southern Africa citrous fruit, citrus, citrus fruit any of numerous fruits of the genus Citrus having thick rind and juicy pulp; grown in warm regions 2n shrub or small tree having flattened globose fruit with very sweet aromatic pulp and thin yellow-orange to flame-orange rind that is loose and easily removed; native to southeastern Asia Syn|Hypo|Hyper Citrus reticulata, mandarin orange, mandarin orange tree tangerine, tangerine tree a variety of mandarin orange clementine, clementine treea variety of mandarin orange that is grown around the Mediterranean and in South Africa satsuma, satsuma treea variety of mandarin orange citrus, citrus tree any of numerous tropical usually thorny evergreen trees of the genus Citrus having leathery evergreen leaves and widely cultivated for their juicy edible fruits having leathery aromatic rinds Mandarin (once / 9078 pages) n WORD FAMILY Mandarin: Mandarins USAGE EXAMPLESHe hired two Chinese-speaking employees and ramped up his study of Mandarin. Los Angeles Times(Dec 31, 2016) If approved, the Mandarin Chinese course offerings would be the district’s fourth language immersion program. Washington Times(Dec 27, 2016) She then read aloud Mandarin phrases from an index card. Washington Post(Dec 12, 2016) n the dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the official language for all of China Syn|Hyper Beijing dialect, Mandarin Chinese, Mandarin dialect Chinese any of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in China; regarded as dialects of a single language (even though they are mutually unintelligible) because they share an ideographic writing system |
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