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单词 trilingual
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Definition of trilingual in English:

trilingual

adjective trʌɪˈlɪŋɡw(ə)ltraɪˈlɪŋɡwəl
  • 1Speaking three languages fluently.

    能流利地说三种语言的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Some are even trilingual - in Spanish, Aymara, and Quechua - in regions where the Incas predominate.
    • The trilingual Galluccio is clearly enjoying his entry into the ‘establishment’ and the respect he's finding as an artist on the French side.
    • And most of the young were bilingual or trilingual (reading and/or speaking French and English as well as Arabic).
    • However, the care and attention to detail merely begins with the compound, and trilingual wedding coordinators are on hand to ensure that all is perfect up to the exchange of vows and to the festivities beyond.
    • I was impressed to meet a trilingual nine-year-old on holiday in Austria and hoped his good example might rub off on my kids.
    • Among the minority, some of the higher clergy were now, to our knowledge, trilingual, and unlike those known to Brihtric, willing to speak in each language as appropriate.
    • I have been pretty lucky in that I have had good results working with professors at the university I work for and also my wife who is trilingual.
    • Many first- and second-generation Mayan Americans are trilingual, and can communicate in Spanish, English, and a Mayan dialect.
    • Being ill in the 1990s and trilingual, I soon met others worldwide who were facing similar concerns, especially in Latin America.
    • They interact with Tigrinya speakers in their everyday life, and most Saho speakers are bilingual and trilingual in Saho and Tigrinya and/or Tigre.
    • ‘It's like sculpture,’ says the trilingual actress who has a Quebecoise mother and an Italian father.
    • This is a very confusing situation for a precocious trilingual five year old, but not such an unusual condition when seen in a pan-Canadian context.
    • In fact, about a month later, they did find a tutor who was trilingual, commanding American Sign Language, English, and Spanish, who began giving classes in their homes.
    • As Chone Shmeruk, the great scholar of Jewish literature in Poland, has noted, the interwar culture of the Polish Jews was really trilingual.
    • While Simon the cute, violin playing, trilingual young lad is pretty good, his two red-haired cousins are contrived and mostly painful.
    • From the twelfth to the fourteenth century a well-educated Englishman was trilingual.
    • According to a survey done in 1860 at least one person in the sixteen families living in the village at that time was trilingual in Finnish, Saami, and Norwegian, although the first language of all the households was Saami.
    • ‘Port is really the result of a historical accident,’ recounted Taylor's trilingual guide, Frédéric da Costa, during the tasting.
    • Our vision of excellence means that our children must be bilingual - or trilingual, or maybe even multilingual in spoken languages and conversant in one or more cyber languages.
    • He grew up trilingual, in English, Mandarin Chinese and Malay.
    1. 1.1 (of a text or an activity) written or conducted in three languages.
      (文本,活动)使用三种语言的
      CNN have begun offering a trilingual entertainment service

      美国有线新闻网络已开始提供一项三语娱乐节目。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Like many restaurants in the area, the place features a trilingual menu, with some dishes seemingly limited to the customers who can order them in Chinese.
      • Posted to Kurdistan, he set about trying to decipher King Darius's trilingual inscription on the Great Rock of Bisitun.
      • The hybridisation is typically trilingual in the northern Italian macaronic poets involving Latin, Italian, and Po Valley dialects.
      • More than 250 historical photographs as well as a trilingual glossary (Hawaiian, English, Spanish) supplement the text.
      • Recorde may have written in English, but he still expected his audience to appreciate a trilingual pun!
      • Cummins, in particular, argued that Rossell and Baker's study actually proved the effectiveness of bilingual and trilingual education.
      • The trilingual texts allowed him to decipher their meaning.
      • For the first time in the history of the Olympic Games, the entire official website is trilingual (Greek, French, English) two and a half years before the Games.
      • Besides, trilingual translations fill up the booklet.
      • John wanted to revitalise the academic study of Islam and to this end edited a new, trilingual version of the Koran in Arabic, Latin and Castilian.
      • The tests and evaluation procedures were adapted from those used in previous research of Canadian immersion programs and later the Luxembourg system of trilingual education.
      • The menu is trilingual with Belgian at the top, French underneath and English on the last line.
      • The commentator, Shankarappa Master, won the hearts of spectators with his trilingual speech.
      • Montana farmers provided a trilingual manual in English, German, and Spanish titled ‘Pulling, Piling, Topping and Loading Sugar Beets.’
      • Another criticism of this book is that it is not trilingual.
      • The books are trilingual (English, Dutch and French) in order to make them international market-friendly.
      • The teaching was trilingual, in French, Montagnais, and Huron.
      • Five collections of verse in Oriya, and translations into English from Oriya and Bengali, testify to his trilingual creativity.
      • Sherley picked up Chinese from her mother, English from her father and Spanish in school, a talent that was the foundation for what may be the world's first trilingual book by someone so young.
      • This trilingual follow-up, fittingly, sounds like a dispatch from a faraway, enchanted land.

Derivatives

  • trilingualism

  • noun
    • Populations were intermixed, and there was a good deal of intermarriage, and bilingualism and trilingualism.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • We ought to promote trilingualism and save ‘small languages’ by teaching them.
      • Most ethnic minorities in urban areas speak Russian rather than Georgian as a second language, but bilingualism and trilingualism are common, and Russian continues to be understood in most of the country.
      • My interest in trilingualism and multilingualism started during my undergraduate studies in linguistic related subjects.
      • As a leading light in the study of trilingualism, our organisation has been involved in research since 1999, supporting postgraduate research in the area, publications by staff members and attendance at international conferences.

Origin

Mid 19th century: from tri- 'three' + Latin lingua 'tongue' + -al.

Definition of trilingual in US English:

trilingual

adjectivetrīˈliNGɡwəltraɪˈlɪŋɡwəl
  • 1(of a person) speaking three languages fluently.

    能流利地说三种语言的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Some are even trilingual - in Spanish, Aymara, and Quechua - in regions where the Incas predominate.
    • Many first- and second-generation Mayan Americans are trilingual, and can communicate in Spanish, English, and a Mayan dialect.
    • ‘Port is really the result of a historical accident,’ recounted Taylor's trilingual guide, Frédéric da Costa, during the tasting.
    • This is a very confusing situation for a precocious trilingual five year old, but not such an unusual condition when seen in a pan-Canadian context.
    • Our vision of excellence means that our children must be bilingual - or trilingual, or maybe even multilingual in spoken languages and conversant in one or more cyber languages.
    • I was impressed to meet a trilingual nine-year-old on holiday in Austria and hoped his good example might rub off on my kids.
    • And most of the young were bilingual or trilingual (reading and/or speaking French and English as well as Arabic).
    • I have been pretty lucky in that I have had good results working with professors at the university I work for and also my wife who is trilingual.
    • From the twelfth to the fourteenth century a well-educated Englishman was trilingual.
    • In fact, about a month later, they did find a tutor who was trilingual, commanding American Sign Language, English, and Spanish, who began giving classes in their homes.
    • Among the minority, some of the higher clergy were now, to our knowledge, trilingual, and unlike those known to Brihtric, willing to speak in each language as appropriate.
    • As Chone Shmeruk, the great scholar of Jewish literature in Poland, has noted, the interwar culture of the Polish Jews was really trilingual.
    • They interact with Tigrinya speakers in their everyday life, and most Saho speakers are bilingual and trilingual in Saho and Tigrinya and/or Tigre.
    • He grew up trilingual, in English, Mandarin Chinese and Malay.
    • The trilingual Galluccio is clearly enjoying his entry into the ‘establishment’ and the respect he's finding as an artist on the French side.
    • According to a survey done in 1860 at least one person in the sixteen families living in the village at that time was trilingual in Finnish, Saami, and Norwegian, although the first language of all the households was Saami.
    • Being ill in the 1990s and trilingual, I soon met others worldwide who were facing similar concerns, especially in Latin America.
    • ‘It's like sculpture,’ says the trilingual actress who has a Quebecoise mother and an Italian father.
    • While Simon the cute, violin playing, trilingual young lad is pretty good, his two red-haired cousins are contrived and mostly painful.
    • However, the care and attention to detail merely begins with the compound, and trilingual wedding coordinators are on hand to ensure that all is perfect up to the exchange of vows and to the festivities beyond.
    1. 1.1 (of a text or an activity) written or conducted in three languages.
      (文本,活动)使用三种语言的
      trilingual magazines in Chinese, Indonesian, and English
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Sherley picked up Chinese from her mother, English from her father and Spanish in school, a talent that was the foundation for what may be the world's first trilingual book by someone so young.
      • John wanted to revitalise the academic study of Islam and to this end edited a new, trilingual version of the Koran in Arabic, Latin and Castilian.
      • The books are trilingual (English, Dutch and French) in order to make them international market-friendly.
      • The menu is trilingual with Belgian at the top, French underneath and English on the last line.
      • Cummins, in particular, argued that Rossell and Baker's study actually proved the effectiveness of bilingual and trilingual education.
      • This trilingual follow-up, fittingly, sounds like a dispatch from a faraway, enchanted land.
      • Posted to Kurdistan, he set about trying to decipher King Darius's trilingual inscription on the Great Rock of Bisitun.
      • Like many restaurants in the area, the place features a trilingual menu, with some dishes seemingly limited to the customers who can order them in Chinese.
      • Besides, trilingual translations fill up the booklet.
      • The teaching was trilingual, in French, Montagnais, and Huron.
      • The tests and evaluation procedures were adapted from those used in previous research of Canadian immersion programs and later the Luxembourg system of trilingual education.
      • For the first time in the history of the Olympic Games, the entire official website is trilingual (Greek, French, English) two and a half years before the Games.
      • Another criticism of this book is that it is not trilingual.
      • The commentator, Shankarappa Master, won the hearts of spectators with his trilingual speech.
      • Montana farmers provided a trilingual manual in English, German, and Spanish titled ‘Pulling, Piling, Topping and Loading Sugar Beets.’
      • Recorde may have written in English, but he still expected his audience to appreciate a trilingual pun!
      • The trilingual texts allowed him to decipher their meaning.
      • Five collections of verse in Oriya, and translations into English from Oriya and Bengali, testify to his trilingual creativity.
      • More than 250 historical photographs as well as a trilingual glossary (Hawaiian, English, Spanish) supplement the text.
      • The hybridisation is typically trilingual in the northern Italian macaronic poets involving Latin, Italian, and Po Valley dialects.

Origin

Mid 19th century: from tri- ‘three’ + Latin lingua ‘tongue’ + -al.

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