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
Richard, isn't that too much to ask of your mother?
Richard，那是不是太麻烦你母亲啦？
Haste makes waste.
拔苗助长。
The reader's hair stands on end when he reads in the final pages of the novel that the heroine a dear old lady who had always been so kind to everybody, had, in her youth, poisoned every one of her five husbands.
当读者到小说最后几页了解到书中女主人公，那位一向待大家很好的可爱的老妇人年轻时一连毒死了她的5个丈夫时，不禁会毛骨悚然。