- 1台灣的、台灣人；也指台語（台灣閩南語）。三個意思共用一個英文字，要看上下文分。
Taiwanese is the adjective for Taiwan — it describes anything that belongs to Taiwan or comes from Taiwan: Taiwanese food, a Taiwanese company, Taiwanese films. It is also the noun for a person from Taiwan; one Taiwanese, two Taiwanese (the word does not change, and you can also say 'the Taiwanese' for the people as a whole). Careful here: 'a Taiwanese' sounds a bit odd and a bit cold to many native speakers, the way 'a Chinese' or 'a Japanese' does. Most people say 'a Taiwanese person', 'a Taiwanese student', 'a Taiwanese friend' instead, and that is the safer habit. There is a third use that matters a lot at home: Taiwanese is also the name of a language — what people here often call 台語. So 'She speaks Taiwanese' means the language, not just that she is from Taiwan. That is where the word gets slippery, because outside Taiwan many people do not know that language exists, and they may hear 'Taiwanese' and think you mean Mandarin. If it matters, say which one: 'Taiwanese Hokkien' or 'Mandarin'. And in a country with several languages and several peoples — Hakka speakers, Indigenous peoples, families who came in 1949 — the one word 'Taiwanese' is carrying more than one meaning at once. People argue about it, kindly and . That argument is part of the word, not a mistake in it. The word is used the same way in daily talk and in formal writing; it is not slang, and it is not stiff. Note the capital T — country words always keep it, even in the middle of a sentence.
組成Taiwan + -ese. The ending -ese is the one English puts on many place names to make 'from there': Japanese, Portuguese, Vietnamese, Chinese. It travelled a long way to reach us — Latin -ensis, meaning 'belonging to a place', through Old French, into English.
同家族的字
- Japanesesame -ese ending: from Japan
- Chinesesame -ese ending: from China
- Vietnamesesame -ese ending: from Vietnam
- Portuguesesame -ese ending: from Portugal
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
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。
Taiwaneseadj/taɪwəˈniːz/
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Of or pertaining to Taiwan or its people, culture, language/s, etc.
- We know the “ethnic” distribution between Taiwanese and mainland Chinese households in each district (ch’ü) of Taipei. In 1963, the percent of Taiwanese households varied from only 28.8% in Taan district to 86% in Chiencheng district. In 1991, Taan again had the lowest percent of Taiwanese households (63%) and Tatung the highest (86%).
- As Reece Overhalt spoke to the President, the first reports came in of China’s invasion of the Taiwanese island of Peikan, just off the coast of Fujian.
Taiwanesenoun/taɪwəˈniːz/
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People from Taiwan.
- Congregations consist mainly of Mandarin-speaking refugees from the mainland but Taiwanese are not excluded. Student centers were established at Taipei, Panchiao, and Tainan for Bible study, fellowship, and personal counseling.
- Taiwan was the touchstone for both sides. We felt that we should not and could not abandon the Taiwanese; we were committed to Taiwan's right to exist as an independent nation.
Taiwanesename/taɪwəˈniːz/
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The variant of Hokkien spoken in Taiwan, the native language of the Hoklo.
- Language. Mandarin is the official language, but many people speak Taiwanese (a variant of a southern Chinese dialect) and Japanese. The younger generation and those engaged in the tourist trade speak some English.
- The gay and lesbian movement in Taiwan is composed largely of students and other intellectuals and therefore is largely Mandarin-speaking, middle-class, and young. Koa-a-hi actresses, by contrast, almost always speak Taiwanese as their primary language, are rarely educated beyond elementary school, and can barely make ends meet.
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