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名词 (Noun)PLEnglishesSUF-ish

One's ability to employ the English language correctly.
1. My coworker has pretty good English for a non-native speaker.

(printing, dated) The size of type between pica and great primer, standardized as 14-point.

形容词 (Adjective)COMmore EnglishSUPmost English

Of or pertaining to the people of England (to Englishmen and Englishwomen).

Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.

专有名词 (Proper noun)

(collective plural) The people of England; Englishmen and Englishwomen.
1. The Scottish and the English have a history of conflict.

(Amish, collective plural) The non-Amish; non-Amish people.

A surname.

更多范例

用于句中
- Loyalty is in the English a subreligion. — Emerson.
- "The Bard" is a sobriquet of English playwright William Shakespeare.
- (A direct quote from: 1897 Universal Dictionary of the English Language, v 4 p 4310)
用于句首
- English Navy squibs set fire to two dozen enemy ships in a Dutch harbor during the 16th century battle against the Spanish Armada.
- English speakers have naturalized the French word "café".
- English National Opera is a title freighted with implications, and that first adjective promises not only a geographical reach, but a linguistic commitment too.
用于句尾
- Students with a pronounced Midland South dialect are required to take a course teaching them to speak and write in Standard English.
- While I come from Chile, my friend is from England, so I had to learn to speak English.
- You can't hit it directly, but maybe if you give it some english.

Meaning of English for the defined word.