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Mauritian is the word for a person from Mauritius, and for things that belong to that island country — Mauritian food, a Mauritian passport, Mauritian Creole. Mauritius is the island in the Indian Ocean, east of , with its capital at Port Louis; it is in the Commonwealth and is well known as a holiday place. You can use Mauritian as a noun (a Mauritian / the Mauritians) or as an adjective. Though actually, the word Mauritanian belongs to a different country altogether: , the large desert state on Africa’s northwest coast. English mix these two more than almost any other pair of country-words.
模里西斯人;模里西斯的
組成Mauritius + -an (the usual English ending for “person or thing of that place”).
同家族的字
- Mauritiusthe country name this word is built from
原始詞典資料3 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。
Mauritianadj
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Of, from, or pertaining to Mauritius, its people, or their language or culture.
- One of the official languages of Mauritius is Mauritian Creole.
Mauritiannoun
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A person from Mauritius or of Mauritian descent.
- Like the Irish, the Mauritians were alien to the English in race, culture and religion.
Mauritianname
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Mauritian Creole.
- However, Baker (pc) notes that limero is also a common Mauritian pronunciation.
- The are two perspectives on the relationship between Réunionnais, a semicreole, and Mauritian, a typical plantation creole. Baker and Corne (1982) argue that […] Mauritian is the product of a break in the transmission of French, […]
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。