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bilingual

/bahy-ling-gwuhl or, Canadian, -ling-gyoo-uhl/US // baɪˈlɪŋ gwəl or, Canadian, -ˈlɪŋ gyu əl //UK // (baɪˈlɪŋɡwəl) //

双语,双语的,两种语言,双语言

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : able to speak two languages with the facility of a native speaker.
    • : spoken, written, or containing similar information in two different languages: a bilingual dictionary; Public notices at the embassy are bilingual.
    • : of, involving, or using two languages: a bilingual community; bilingual schools.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a bilingual person.

Examples

  • For example, children who grew up in a bilingual household may be able to pay attention to and process more of the world around them, allowing them to notice changes in their environment more quickly.

  • Netflix, whose first exclusive offering, in 2012, was the bilingual Norwegian import Lilyhammer, is currently available in more than 190 countries.

  • The clerk, who is bilingual, also reads the comments written in Spanish.

  • La Prensa, a bilingual newspaper, reported last month on the Urban Area Working Group’s existence, estimating that it had divvied up hundreds of millions of dollars since its formation in 2008.

  • We are bilingual, so there aren’t any language barriers to learning or curiosity.

  • The scenes in Tokyo were filmed with the help of a bilingual Japanese crew.

  • She could hardly speak English, but she made up bilingual jokes.

  • Almost to a person, the French who are bilingual credit English-language television with their success.

  • Access to new information—literary or political—is one advantage of becoming functionally bilingual, but it is not the main one.

  • And this is the best reason for a writer to become bilingual: to discover what English can do that no other language on earth can.

  • In the bilingual legend of the Creation, Nippur seems to be regarded as a very old city.

  • The invasion of Bohemian workmen has virtually rendered bilingual every such Germanized district where industrialism flourishes.

  • One of the first acts of the new count was to secure Artois, thus reconstituting the bilingual Flanders of the previous century.

  • Greek was the language of the government and of trade, and in a measure the Jews were a bilingual people.

  • It may be assumed that, at the end of the eleventh century, the majority of the aristocracy was bilingual.