multilingual

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Related topics: Languages

SLLSPEAK A LANGUAGEusing, speaking, or written in several different languages 使用多种语言的；以多种语言表达的 → bilingual, monolingual

the problems of a multilingual classroom

多语课堂的问题

a multilingual phrasebook

多语会话手册

—multilingualism noun [uncountableU]

Examples from the Corpus

multilingual• Many people who work at the European Parliament are multilingual.• Recent surveys including that carried out by the Linguistic Minorities Project 1985 have revealed the extent to which Britain is multilingual.• It offers multilingual and interdisciplinary curriculum at University degree level.• Such a policy would be of especial benefit to bilingual or multilingual children.• A particular priority is research on classroom interaction in multiethnic and multilingual classrooms. 10.• a multilingual phrasebook• The hotel has a multilingual staff.• There is growing interest in multilingual thesauri for application in international information retrieval networks.• In fact, well-educated, multilingual women from many different countries worked as international stewardesses.

From Longman Business Dictionary

multilingualmul·ti·lin·gual /ˌmʌltɪˈlɪŋgwəl◂/ adjectiveadj

1able to speak more than two languages

More multilingual flight attendants are being recruited.

2written or spoken in more than one language

a 24-hour, multilingual help line

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