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Bilingual Speak Means Languages Spanish Person Adj 形容词

英语单词 bilingual
英美音标 英 [ˌbaɪ'lɪŋɡwəl] 美 [ˌbaɪ'lɪŋɡwəl]
中文释义 adj.双语的
英语例句 (1) Today I would like to try writing a bilingual blog.
(2) The course requires you to be bilingual.
(3) He is virtually bilingual in Spanish and Portuguese.
中文例句 (1) 今天,我想试着写一篇双语的博客。
(2) 这门课程要求修学者懂两门外语。
(3) 他实际上讲西班牙语和葡萄牙语两种语言。
vocabulary简明 Bilingual is an adjective that describes a person or community that speaks two languages. A bilingual woman might speak Spanish and English, and a part of town where people speak Mandarin and Polish is a bilingual neighborhood.
vocabulary扩展 The prefix bi- means “having two,” and the Latin word lingua means “tongue, language,” so bilingual literally means “having two tongues.” It would be a mouthful to have two physical tongues, but luckily bilingual is for language tongues: the ability to speak two languages fluently. Bilingual is also a noun, and a person can be called a bilingual, like in the African country Chad, where the official languages are French and Arabic, and where many of the citizens are bilinguals.
柯林斯解释
1
[ADJ 形容词]双语的;涉及两种语言的;使用两种语言的 Bilingual means involving or using two languages.
  [ADJ n]
  • ...bilingual education.

    双语教育

  • ...the Collins bilingual dictionaries.

    柯林斯双语词典

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[ADJ 形容词]双语的;能说两种语言的 Someone who is bilingual can speak two languages equally well, usually because they learned both languages as a child.
  [v-link ADJ]
  • He is bilingual in an Asian language and English.

    他会说一门亚洲语言和一门英语。

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