• Relating to England or its people or language.

  英格兰的；英格兰人的；英语的

  Example sentencesExamples

  • You can steal the recipe from the article if you understand a little of the English language in medieval times.
  • An unwelcome result of these lessons was that my English language abilities began to digress.
  • The offenders are described as two white males, with English accents.
  • During the following year and a half, she has stayed at home except for giving English classes in language schools on weekends.
  • The English language over the last 1,000 years has borrowed words from 350 other languages.
  • During their stay they took part in various activities as well as English language classes and enjoyed their time in Ireland.
  • The displays include English language descriptions and parking is conveniently located in front of the building.
  • Currently the channel broadcasts only in Arabic, but there are plans to create an English language version.
  • Ireland lost the game, to a far superior English side. Perhaps next year we will do better.
  • So I thought I'd wait to see if it got picked up in the English language press.
  • What we are doing is to say that as soon as they go on those visas, they will get no English language training and they will be given no assistance to find a job.
  • As David points out, they want him extradited for an alleged crime, committed in England against an English bank.
  • You might consider using the time to learn the English language.
  • Literally, I couldn't even speak the English language well enough to say my lines.
  • The group also proposes to venture into English language productions.
  • But it is Dylan's control and use of the English language that is the most impressive aspect of this book.
  • Students from the private English language school will perform Oliver Twist.
  • Ben left England to be an English teacher in 2000 and started his career in Galicia, in northern Spain.
  • Yesterday our English teacher from England told us that he had decided to settle down in Shanghai because he felt it was a safe place.
  • Adam, I used to think that being the English language's greatest writer was the highest honour a man could aspire to.

• 1mass noun The language of England, widely used in many varieties throughout the world.

  英语

  Example sentencesExamples

  • Advertising slogans in English and Chinese plaster the side of a double-decker bus in Hong Kong.
  • That sentence wasn't written by anyone who speaks English as a first language.
  • True, English is spoken widely but so have many other languages been - French, Portuguese and Spanish for example.
  • He was surprised to hear someone speaking English, albeit with a light accent, and spun around.
  • Spanish is the first language, but English is widely spoken in the tourist trade.
  • Articles in languages other than English were translated.
  • The menu is a single large A3 sheet with English on one side and Russian on the other.
  • Two hundred and fifty poems written by two hundred and thirty poets in fifteen languages were translated into English.
  • The official language is English, but a dialect is widely spoken on informal occasions.
  • Pierre, 14, speaks English as a second language having moved with his French parents to Britain six years ago.
  • While French is the official language, English, German, Italian and Spanish are widely spoken.
  • For them it seems very normal that everyone should speak English since English is spoken everywhere.
  • Four-fifths of the pupils speak languages other than English.
  • The group helps students from ages 6-18 develop writing skills and use English as a second language.
  • And children should be exposed to the entire variety of Englishes, not just one or the other.
  • Most lived in a home where a language other than English or French was spoken.
  • Turkish and English will be spoken throughout the evening.
  • He is skilled in several foreign languages such as English, French, Italian and Germany.
  • She is a pupil at a local school and speaks English as a first language.
  • We hear English, Japanese, Arabic, Dutch and Spanish.

• 2as plural noun the EnglishThe people of England.

  英格兰人

  Example sentencesExamples

  • But as the English and Americans can't even agree on what to call the punctuation marks.
  • Those two factors have been the key to England's season, and the core of this side will be English.
  • I'd rather beat someone else to be honest, English, Scottish, whatever.
  • She overreached herself in a failed attack on Paris and was subsequently captured by the Burgundians who sold her to the English.
  • His prime subject has always been England and the English.
  • And as any subcontinental cricketer will tell you, beating the English in England is very special.
  • In the 1600s this clan had been involved in border wars between the Scots and the English.
  • For example, after the defeat of Napoleon, the English and Russians occupied Paris.
  • Writing on Portuguese wines was dominated by the English.
  • The control of real property was a goal of the Indians as well as the English.
  • And shall we condemn the English for what they did to the American and other colonies?
  • For the Indians, the gifts re-enforced their equal partnership with the English.
  • I've nothing against England or the English: I've lived here for eight years and my other half is a Yorkshireman.
  • Only two years later Charles I was executed and his son proclaimed Charles II by the Scots in defiance of the English.
  • Patrick particularly told me about life in England, and the general behaviour of the English.
  • In that same interview, with New York magazine, she delivered what appeared to be a savage attack on England and the English.
  • He got a promise of France not interfering in a Spanish war against the English.
  • The story goes that the first blows were struck at about ten in the morning and for many hours the Normans could make no impression on the English.
  • It's thought to be endemic in the English. ‘An Englishman's home is his castle’.
  • The Caribbean was a scene of permanent warfare between the English and Spaniards.

• 3North American mass noun Spin or side given to a ball, especially in pool or billiards.

  〈北美〉（尤指落袋台球戏或台球戏中对球所作的）侧旋

  put more English on the ball

  Example sentencesExamples

  • English is used to dramatically increase or decrease the cue ball deflection angle.
  • Right English on the Cue Ball will throw the Object Ball to the left.
  • Make a firm decision on English and/or the cue ball path before bending down to make the shot.

English is the principal language of Great Britain, the US, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and many other countries. It is the second most commonly spoken first language, with some 400 million native speakers, and is the world's most widely used second language. English belongs to the West Germanic group of Indo-European languages, though its vocabulary has been much influenced by Norman French and Latin