mandarin
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1 Mandarin [U]
official standard spoken language of China (中國的)官話(普通話的舊稱).
2 [C] (formerly) high-ranking government official in China (舊時)中國政府的高級官吏.
3 [C] high-ranking official who behaves and writes in a remote and difficult way 態度冷淡文字艱澀的高級官吏
Whitehall mandarins, ie top British civil servants 英國政府中因循守舊的官僚
[attrib 作定語]
pages and pages of mandarin prose 長篇累牘的晦澀文章.
4 [C] (also ,mandarin `orange) type of small orange with loose skin 橘子.
5 [C] (also ,mandarin `duck) small (originally Chinese) duck with brightly coloured feathers 鴛鴦(原產中國).