- 1蒙古的;蒙古人;蒙古語
Mongolian is the word for the people, the language, and the things of — the country in north-central Asia between Russia and China, with its capital at . As an adjective it means 'of ': Mongolian food, Mongolian history, the Mongolian . As a noun it means a person from , or the Mongolian language. The country itself is , not Mongolian; we do not say 'I went to Mongolian.' Though actually, older English also used for the people. Today Mongolian is the normal school-book word. The land is huge and peopled, with grass plains and desert; that is the place this word points to. There was also an old medical use of Mongolian for Down's syndrome, the same ugly history as and . That use is offensive and finished. If you mean the condition, say Down's syndrome.
組成Originally Mongol + -ian, a 1706 rendering of German mongolisch / mongalisch. Later also felt as Mongolia + -an.
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以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,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。
Mongolianadj/mɒŋˈɡoʊliən/
- 1
Of or relating to Mongolia or its peoples, languages, or cultures.
- He had a Sister, which according to the Mongalian custom lived in the devoted spiritual state.
- The Mongolian characters...are written perpendicularly from above downward.
- 2
datedanthropologyhuman-sciencessciencesResembling or having some of the characteristic physical features of the mongoloid racial type.
- The Mongolian variety inhabits eastern Asia, Finland, and Lapland in Europe, and includes the Esquimaux of North America.
- The white (or Caucasian), the yellow (or Mongolian), and the black (or Ethiopian)
- 3
offensivearchaicRelating to or affected with Down syndrome.
- The Mongolian type of idiocy occurs in more than ten per cent. of the cases which are presented to me.
- The condition known as trisomy 21 syndrome or mongolian idiocy (sometimes referred to as Down's syndrome) had long been an enigma.
Mongoliannoun/mɒŋˈɡoʊliən/
- 1
A native or inhabitant of Mongolia.
- The Cossac there, The Calmuc, and Mungalian, round the bales In crowds resort.
- This day we saw some scattered tents of Mongalians, with their flocks.
- 2
A group of languages from Mongolia, specifically Khalkha, the official language of Mongolia.
- Khalka […] Mongolian possesses seven vowels and twenty consonants.
- The Altaic family […] comprises about 40 languages, classified into three groups: Turkic, Mongolian, and Manchu-Tungus.
- 3
A person of the mongoloid physical type.
- A particular individual which the latter considered a Mongolian and the former assures us is an Ethiopian.
- She was found to be one of the type of white women whose nasal organs appear never to have been developed, and who take to the loathsome Mongolian and his filthy hovel as blithely as a plague rat to a sewer.
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