mandarin

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈmæn.də.ɹɪn/|/mæn.dəˈɹɪn/    美 /ˈmæn.də.ɹɪn/|/mæn.dəˈɹɪn/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A high government bureaucrat of the Chinese Empire. historical
    — LIKE THE MANDARINS of old, the rulers of China live behind high walls. When they emerge, which they rarely do, they travel in cars with rear windows curtained like sedan chairs. They live in the Chung Nan Hai, a walled park adjacent to the Forbidden City from where ancient dynasties ruled the Celestial Empire.
  2. Ellipsis of mandarin orange:; A small, sweet citrus fruit.
  3. A pedantic or elitist bureaucrat.
  4. Ellipsis of mandarin orange:; A tree of the species Citrus reticulata.
  5. A pedantic senior person of influence in academia or literary circles. derogatory,sometimes
    — Its sting preserved to literature a fierce peculiar genius [Waugh] who, in the 40 years before his death last week at 62, achieved recognition as the grand old mandarin of modern British prose and as a satirist whose skill at sticking pens in people rates him a roomy cell in the murderers’ row (Swift, Pope, Wilde, Shaw) of English letters.
  6. An orange colour.
  7. Ellipsis of mandarin duck. abbreviation,alt-of,ellipsis
  8. A senior civil servant. UK,informal
  9. A figurine of a Chinese person with movable head that was popular in the 1950s. (Cf. bobblehead.)
    — He lay quietly in the hydropathic bed while his heart shuddered and his eyes focused at random on objects in the room, simulating a calm he could not feel. The walls of green jade, the nightlight in the porcelain mandarin whose head nodded interminably if you touched him, the multi-clock that radiated the time of three planets and six satelittes, the bed itself, a crystal pool flowing with carbonated glycerine at ninety-nine point nine Fahrenheit.
形容词 adj.
  1. Pertaining to or reminiscent of mandarins; deliberately superior or complex; esoteric, highbrow, obscurantist.
    — A mandarin impassivity had descended over Smiley's face. The earlier emotion was quite gone.

词形变化

mandarins plural more mandarin comparative most mandarin superlative mandarins plural

词汇关系

上位词
citrus fruit
衍生词
Cleopatra mandarin lemandarin mandarinal mandarinate mandarin collar mandarindom mandariness mandarin fish mandarin gown mandarinic mandarining mandarinism mandarinize mandarinquat mandarinship mandarin square

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *men-
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-trom
Proto-Indo-Iranian *mántras
Sanskrit मन्त्र॑ (mántra)
Proto-Indo-Iranian *-in-
Sanskrit -इन् (-in)
Sanskrit म॒न्त्रिन् (mantrín)bor.
Malay menteribor.
Portuguese mandarimbor.
English mandarin
From Portuguese mandarim, mandarij, from Malay menteri, manteri, and its source, Sanskrit मन्त्रिन् (mantrin, “minister, councillor”), from मन्त्र (mantra, “counsel, maxim, mantra”) + -इन् (-in, an agent suffix).
词源 2
From French mandarine, feminine of mandarin, probably formed as Etymology 1, above, from the yellow colour of the mandarins' costume.
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