pseudo-English
名词 n.
形容词 adj.
英文释义
名词 n.
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Lexical borrowings from English that do not correspond directly to English word usage.
— Then and now Back in 1981 when I wrote the first article on this subject (The Incorporated Linguist 20, 104, 1981), Naples was in the throes of a boom in the use of English (or rather pseudo-English) in local facias and tradenames.
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A structured artificial language that uses English words in order to be more user friendly for English speakers.
— There is a strong feeling that pseudo-English is more "user friendly" than symbolic notation.
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Nonsense text or speech that resembles English in some way.
— However, even then, pseudo-English is a useful intermediate output since it can be used to update the dictionaries, to refine the partitioning methods, and to derive rules for syntactic analysis.
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English-language jargon or dialect that does not reflect the way most people speak.
— But he could not write or speak English in a manner tolerable to any Englishman; and although he knew nearly all the words in the language, it was dictionary knowledge, and so different from an Englishman's apprehension of the same words that it was only a sort of pseudo-English that he knew, and not our living tongue.
形容词 adj.
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In a style or manner that imitates the way things are done in England.
— During his adolescence he went to the most exclusive of the pseudo-English schools that try to recreate a Harrow or an Eton on the alien American scene.
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Imitating the English language.
— The other two are done very badly — so badly as to be in parts unintelligible, unless the reader has the skill to hammer out conjecturally the German or Italian original from the pseudo-English gibberish which is set before him.
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词源 1
From pseudo- + English.
词源 2
From pseudo- + English.
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