今天查Mandarin(普通话),发现MW Collegiate 11是这样解释的: 7 ]2 n1 |. k( {- H4 r" wa form of spoken Chinese used by the court and the official classes of the Empire # M2 V2 G/ v7 M$ X% N那么,这个大写的Empire就有点儿问题了,是哪个帝国呢? : x, J! `6 v" f# H8 \ 9 H8 f6 T7 D% `http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mandarin* a P, D5 P' e2 A9 X
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a : a form of spoken Chinese used by the court and the official classes of the Empire+ I+ w! ~3 V& @* T/ T$ }
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