Pidgin
n. 混杂语言, 混杂行话, 事务
📖 牛津释义
pidgin
n
any of several languages resulting from contact between European traders and local peoples, eg in W Africa and SE Asia, containing elements of the local language(s) and esp English,French or Dutch, and still used for internal communication 洋泾滨语
speak in pidgin 讲洋泾滨话
[attrib 作定语]
pidgin English, ie language derived from English and another language 洋泾滨英语. Cf 参看 creole.
🗣️ 情景例句
The desk clerk at the Watemill suggested your inn.
Watemill Inn柜台职员推荐你们旅馆。
Have you been busy with schoolwork?
学校的功课很忙吗？
At such times, justice acts like a living force.
在这种时候，正义像一种有生命的力量行使其职能。