taipan

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈtaɪpæn/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A foreign businessman in China; a tycoon.
    — Of course it was very sad, but the taipan could hardly help a smile when he thought how many of these young fellows he had drunk underground.
  2. Any venomous elapid snake of the genus Oxyuranus, found in Australia and New Guinea.
  3. A tycoon (usually of Chinese Filipino background) Philippines

词形变化

taipans plural taepan alternative tai-pan alternative typan alternative taipans plural

词汇关系

相关词
tycoon

词源

词源 1
From Cantonese 大班 (daai⁶ baan¹, “big shot, rich businessman”), originally as taepan. Related to tycoon, from Japanese 大君(たいくん) (taikun).
词源 2
From the name of the Thaypan tribe of Aboriginal people of central Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia, or from Wik-Mungkan tay-pan (or dhayban).
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