今天查Mandarin(普通话),发现MW Collegiate 11是这样解释的:0 L5 P) k' m# l' n- ~0 ]
a form of spoken Chinese used by the court and the official classes of the Empire3 H' c* N" }( S$ V9 c
那么,这个大写的Empire就有点儿问题了,是哪个帝国呢? 5 N6 Y4 ~3 B7 W0 v# X) e* x+ P * p; a$ G' G! X {2 I$ _ N* D4 nhttp://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mandarin & t! L+ X& C9 K4 X" Bcapitalized/ B x2 ^- O* J3 E/ t% I0 N
a : a form of spoken Chinese used by the court and the official classes of the Empire: U1 O3 ]7 f; ]+ X
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