pidgin
英['p?d??n]
美['p?d??n]
- n. 洋涇濱語；混雜語言；事務(wù)
中文詞源
pidgin 洋涇浜，混雜式語言
來自pigeon English(1859),鴿子英語，鳥語，19世紀(jì)中葉上海開埠時(shí)歐洲人用以形容中國(guó)人說的簡(jiǎn)化英語，來自pigeon(1826),鴿子，此詞帶有雙重含義，一是歐洲人用以形容中國(guó)人念”business”的發(fā)音有點(diǎn)像在念”pigeon”,鴿子，二是歐洲人用該詞來暗示或赤裸裸的形容當(dāng)時(shí)的中國(guó)人說英語有點(diǎn)像在說鳥語或像鴿子在叫。在英語詞匯中，pigeon和dove雖然指同一種鳥，但是兩個(gè)詞所表達(dá)的感情色彩是不一樣的。后來可能是因?yàn)樵撛~諷刺意味過于明顯，因而將拼寫改成pidgin.
英文詞源
- pidgin
- pidgin: [19] A pidgin is a reduced form of language used for communication between speech communities which do not share the same native language. A characteristic of such languages is that words in the base language from which the pidgin evolved become altered. And this is how the word pidgin itself arose. It comes from pidgin English, an alteration of business English in the commercial pidgin used in Far Eastern ports in the mid-19th century.
=> business - pidgin (n.)
- 1876, from pigeon English (1859), the reduced form of the language used in China for communication with Europeans, from pigeon (1826), itself a pidgin word, representing a Chinese pronunciation of business. Meaning extended 1891 to "any simplified language."
雙語例句
- 1. The restaurant owner could only speak pidgin English.
- 餐館老板只會(huì)講洋涇浜英語。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. I tried to get my message across in my pidgin Italian.
- 我嘗試用我的洋涇浜意大利語表達(dá)出我的意思。
來自《權(quán)威詞典》
- 3. He's at ease speaking pidgin with the factory workers and guys on the docks.
- 他能輕松自如地用洋涇浜話和工廠工人及碼頭工人交談。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. Fang , Bubi , Ibo, and pidgin English are also widely spoken.
- 芳語 、 布比語、伊博語和皮欽英語也通用.
來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
- 5. In pidgin English, he is the namowen ( number one ) on the port.
- 用句“洋涇 浜 ”英語來說, 他是這個(gè)港口的那摩溫.
來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)