foreign language; Western script
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Meanings
1 sense · 4 examplesnoun
foreign languages and scripts; Western writing systems (esp. European and American)
informalSlightly informal or historical compared to 外文 or 外语. Often implies English or other Western European languages in contrast to Chinese.
Tā他
kàn看
bù不
dǒng懂
yáng洋
wén文
。
He can't read foreign languages.
Zhè这
shì是
yī一
fèn份
yáng洋
wén文
bào报
zhǐ纸
。
This is a foreign-language newspaper.
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Wǒ我
fù父
qīn亲
nà那
bèi辈
rén人
cái才
kāi开
shǐ始
xué学
yáng洋
wén文
。
My father's generation was the first to start learning Western languages.
Bié别
gēn跟
wǒ我
niàn念
yáng洋
wén文
，
wǒ我
tīng听
bù不
dǒng懂
。
Don't recite foreign stuff to me—I don't understand it.