lingua

英 [ˈlɪŋgwə]

美 [ˈlɪŋgwə]

n.  舌；语言

医学

BNC.47511 / COCA.25966

英英释义

noun

• a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity
  Synonym:tongueglossaclapper

双语例句

• In the 17th century, Chinese Pidgin English originated as a lingua franca for trade between British people and mostly Cantonese-speaking Chinese people.
  17世纪，洋泾浜英语作为英国人和大多数讲广东话的中国人做生意时的共通语产生了。
• English has taken its place as the world's lingua franca, but it's not pushing out other languages.
  英语已经成为世界的通用语，但它并不排挤其他语言。
• The legal system is English, and English is the lingua franca of business.
  这里的司法体系是英格兰式的，英语也是商场上的交际语言。
• XML is the lingua franca of modern computing.
  XML是现代计算的通用语言。
• Messaging technology is at the core of SOA, and XML has emerged as the lingua franca of data representation and exchange across applications.
  消息传递技术是SOA的核心技术，XML已经成为跨应用程序数据表示和交换的通用语言。
• English may increasingly be the lingua franca of international business, but some of its vagaries can cause confusion, as Mandarin speaker Zhan Chunxin and Italian speaker Maurizio Ferrari have discovered.
  说汉语的詹纯新和说意大利语的毛里齐奥费拉里（maurizioferrari）发现，或许英语已经日益成为国际商务中的通用语言，但其中某些变幻莫测的特点也会造成语义混淆。
• So it has now become the lingua franca in the world.
  因此它已成为世界同用语言。
• Swahili is the principal lingua franca in East africa.
  东非的主要交际语是斯瓦希里语。
• Both English and Cantonese are lingua franca.
  英语和粤语是通用语言。
• Lingua:: EN:: Fathom, by Kim Ryan, can analyze a file or a block of text, and produce various statistics about its input.
  KimRyan开发的Lingua：：EN：：Fathom可以分析一个文件或一个文本块，并产生有关其输入的各种统计信息。