Mandarin

(noun.) the dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the official language for all of China.

(noun.) a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose skinned citrus of China.

(noun.) a high public official of imperial China.

(noun.) any high government official or bureaucrat.

(noun.) a member of an elite intellectual or cultural group.

(noun.) shrub or small tree having flattened globose fruit with very sweet aromatic pulp and thin yellow-orange to flame-orange rind that is loose and easily removed; native to southeastern Asia.

录入:特德

• A mandarin's education in China is, mainly, learning to read. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• It was gone, but Beth had remembered the little household ceremony, and there she was, nodding away at them like a rosyfaced mandarin. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• The emperors and dynasties might come and go; the mandarins, the examinations, the classics, and the traditions and habitual life remained. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• In China it created a special reading-class, the mandarins, who were also the ruling and official class. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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