今天查Mandarin(普通话),发现MW Collegiate 11是这样解释的: ( [, g0 l$ B* I f/ Z q/ L! fa form of spoken Chinese used by the court and the official classes of the Empire 0 I* ?) f7 w' G- E2 ^那么,这个大写的Empire就有点儿问题了,是哪个帝国呢?1 c# V) i, p! `. L8 L) g# i
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capitalized 2 ]% z8 P; Q2 _- i" M r7 |a : a form of spoken Chinese used by the court and the official classes of the Empire `# c6 N* {: U+ a' q
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