English Dictionary

mandarin

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈmæn.də.ɹɪn/

名詞

歴史的 軽蔑的 頻度副詞 略語 別表記 省略 イギリス英語 くだけた表現

(historical) A high government bureaucrat of the Chinese Empire. / A pedantic or elitist bureaucrat. / (often derogatory) A pedantic senior person of influence in academia or literary circles.

日本語の意味

中国帝国における高位の官僚（歴史的な意味） / 形式主義的または上っ面だけの官僚（しばしば蔑称として） / 学術界や文芸界における、影響力はあるが堅苦しく気取った高齢の人物（特に軽蔑的に使用される場合）

The mandarin reviewed the petitions brought by villagers at dawn.

中国帝国の高級官僚は夜明けに村人たちが持ってきた請願書を審査した。

意味（1）

(historical) A high government bureaucrat of the Chinese Empire.

LIKE THE MANDARINS of old, the rulers of China live behind high walls. When they emerge, which they rarely do, they travel in cars with rear windows curtained like sedan chairs. They live in the Chung Nan Hai, a walled park adjacent to the Forbidden City from where ancient dynasties ruled the Celestial Empire.

意味（2）

A pedantic or elitist bureaucrat.

意味（3）

(often derogatory) A pedantic senior person of influence in academia or literary circles.

Its sting preserved to literature a fierce peculiar genius [Waugh] who, in the 40 years before his death last week at 62, achieved recognition as the grand old mandarin of modern British prose and as a satirist whose skill at sticking pens in people rates him a roomy cell in the murderers’ row (Swift, Pope, Wilde, Shaw) of English letters.

意味（4）

(ornithology) Ellipsis of mandarin duck.

意味（5）

(informal, Britain) A senior civil servant.

mandarins （ plural ）