| 单词 | monolingual |
| 释义 | monolingual (once / 381269 pages) adjn If you're monolingual, you speak just one language. If you are monolingual, your chances of landing a job as a translator are pretty darn slim. Your whole family might be monolingual, while your best friend comes from a family that speaks Spanish at home and English at school — in other words, they're bilingual. Being monolingual can be limiting, since you can only communicate clearly with others who speak your language. Learning new languages and becoming bilingual (or even multilingual, speaking several languages) is also good for your brain. The Greek root mono means "one," and the Latin lingua means "tongue" or "language." WORD FAMILYmonolingual USAGE EXAMPLESIn Searle’s thought experiment, a monolingual English speaker sits alone in a cell. New York Times(Dec 14, 2016) Our students are a mix of Spanish monolingual, English monolingual, and bilingual. New York Times(Oct 17, 2016) I am feeling ashamed — again — of how monolingual we are in the U.S. Washington Times(Sep 27, 2016) 1adj using or knowing only one language monolingual speakers a monolingual dictionary Ant multilingual using or knowing more than one language bilingualusing or knowing two languages polyglothaving a command of or composed in many languages trilingualusing or knowing three languages 2n a person who knows only one language Hyper individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul a human being |
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