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Britishness is the quality, feeling, or ‘flavour’ of being British — the habits, jokes, food, weather-talk, and mixed identities people connect with Britain. Writers and politicians use it when they talk about national character: a sense of Britishness, a debate about Britishness. Though actually, nobody agrees what belongs in the box. Some people mean tea, queues, and being polite; others mean a mix of English, Scottish, Welsh, and Northern Irish ways of living, plus the many families who made Britain home later. It is a noun, not an adjective: you do not say a Britishness person. The everyday adjective is British. In casual talk people more often just say being British; Britishness sounds a little official, like a newspaper or a school essay.
英國特質、英國味(名詞;形容詞是 British)
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Britishnessnoun/ˈbɹɪt.ɪʃ.nəs/
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The state or quality of being British.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。