查mandarin
今天查Mandarin（普通话），发现MW Collegiate 11是这样解释的：a form of spoken Chinese used by the court and the official classes of the Empire
那么，这个大写的Empire就有点儿问题了，是哪个帝国呢？
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mandarin
capitalized
a :a form of spoken Chinese used by the court and the official classes of the Empire
b :the group of closely related Chinese dialects that are spoken in about four fifths of the country and have a standard variety centering about Beijing
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