mandarin

英語（米国） (en-US) 英語（イギリス） (en-GB)

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

（歴史）中華帝国の高級官僚。 / 衒学的またはエリート主義的な官僚。 / （しばしば軽蔑的）学界または文壇で影響力のある衒学的な上級者。

英語の意味

(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.

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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。

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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.

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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.

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意味（4）

(ornithology) Ellipsis of mandarin duck.

意味（5）

(informal, Britain) A senior civil servant.

mandarins （ plural ）