时间:2018-12-18 作者:英语课 分类:美国文化脱口秀


英语课

   在国外,只告诉别人自己会说“Chinese”可不行,在外国友人心中“Chinese”不仅仅指某一种中文。今天Jenny和Adam就要聊一聊中文的不同说法。


  Chinese
  "Chinese"大家都很熟悉,它包含了广东话、上海话等等所有类型的“中文”,是涵盖最广的说法。
  Chinese: 中文
  Mandarin 1: 国语,官话。指official language。
  在中国,普通话是我们的官话和标准语言,因此也可以说:
  Putonghua: 普通话
  Standard Chinese: 普通话,标准汉语
  “Chinese”不仅可以指一种语言,也可以表示书写的汉字:
  Simplified Chinese: 简体中文
  Traditional Chinese: 繁体中文
  各地方言
  课本里告诉我们方言的说法是:
  Dialects: 方言
  但在国外,很多人对于“什么是dialect什么不是dialect”并不能达成一致,因此在具体使用中更安全的说法是:
  Local language: 当地语言
  Local tongue: 当地话
  Tongue是舌头的意思,类似的说法还有mother tongue母语,本国语言。
  中国各地的方言:
  Cantonese: 广东话
  Shanghainese: 上海话
  Sichuanese: 四川话
  Mandarin
  在很多外国人心中,中国说得最多的两种语言就是Mandarin(普通话)和Cantonese(广东话),因此经常会听到外国人问你:
  Do you speak Mandarin or Cantonese? 你说普通话还是广东话?
  Mandarin用法很多,除了指普通话外,还可以表示:
  Mandarin oranges: 橘子
  Mandarin ducks: 鸳鸯
  Mandarin collar: 小立领,中式领
  “说”语言
  “说”一种语言不能用say这个动词,而应该用:
  Speak: 说话
  “Speak”对流利度,熟练度都有一定要求:
  Fluent: 流畅的,流利的
  如果说的不够好,可以说:
  Don't speak very well: 说的不太好
  只会说一些单词,但没法交流会话:
  Speak a little: 只会说一点
  English
  同样,English里也包含着很多种不同的英语:
  American English: 美式英语
  British English: 英式英语
  Australian English: 澳大利亚英语
  除此之外,还有一种非常有特色的:
  Ebonics: 黑人英语。由ebony(乌木)和phonetics(语音学)组成
  另一种更街头的说法是Hood 2 English。

1 Mandarin
n.中国官话,国语,满清官吏;adj.华丽辞藻的
  • Just over one billion people speak Mandarin as their native tongue.大约有十亿以上的人口以华语为母语。
  • Mandarin will be the new official language of the European Union.普通话会变成欧盟新的官方语言。
2 hood
n.头巾,兜帽,覆盖;v.罩上,以头巾覆盖
  • She is wearing a red cloak with a hood.她穿着一件红色带兜帽的披风。
  • The car hood was dented in.汽车的发动机罩已凹了进去。
标签: 美国文化
学英语单词
a-c relay
abrasion drilling
aftershaved
Air Force special operations detachment
alkaline earth metals
all and some
animal plow
antelopes
aquafarming
ascites due to cirrhosis
associated degree
at this time of day
atom manipulation
ball spline
behavior standard
brass case thermometer
bronchorrhea
Brummel hooks
buffer tablet
capsize criterian
ccops
censorate
chlorotrifluorogermane
circulation return pipe
clay lattice expansion
clompings
cobalt complex
cognitive-disability
coincidence trip
colossalize
common law court
deal with somebody
design horse power
dorsal mesogastrium
durinite
electrovalent-bond
emergnecy measure
eulogizer
fall overturn
family osmundaceaes
fencing wall
four strand double crossing over
Fourth-World
furnitures and fixtures
garrastazu
GDW
genus echinochloas
Geranium hispidissimum
give the go - ahead
has a good run
Highmore's body
hot-galvanizing
International Navigation Simulator Lecturers Conference
irritatable
Jody chant
keep warm
king's knight
laffin
lubricious
lummer-brodhun cube
mcmorran
multilevel outlet
nickelizing
nonferrous
nonpharmacy
on sb's lips
one-upsmanships
Ophiorrhiza chingii
Orange River
parallel loan
people-nation
phyllanthus acidus
powers of appointment
protection current density
prumnopitys taxifolias
railway crossing sign
Reevesia glaucophylla
relative inclinometer
scal-of-two counter
Schoonoord
secondary financing
sensitive tapping machine
separation circuit
spaceship crewmember
spectabundal
staff meeting
strip tensile test
Subcarpathian
supertanker
szoka
terrace placer
tiendas
torn-apart
Ullared
unsentimentality
virginiamycin
William Shockley
work the religious dodge on someone
would give the world to
xanthoma tendinosum
yrbss
Zerubbabel