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
a member of an elite intellectual or cultural group
any high government official or bureaucrat
a high public official of imperial China
a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose skinned citrus of China
the dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the official language for all of China
例句
用作名词 (n.)
Of course I can speak Mandarin. 中国话我自然会说。
she was sufficiently fluent in Mandarin. 她普通话说得十分流利。
The foreigner can speak good Mandarin. 这个外国人国语说得很好。
That's why we need more Mandarin and Cantonese speakers on the staff. 这就是为什麽我们需要更多会说国语和广东话的员工。
He was a mandarin of the Ming dynasty. 他是清朝的官吏。
经典引文
Civil servants dropping into private..jobs with salaries..three times what they earned as Whitehall mandarins.
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