pidgin: [19] A pidgin is a reduced form of language used for communication between speech communities which do not share the same native language. A characteristic of such languages is that words in the base language from which the pidgin evolved become altered. And this is how the word pidgin itself arose. It comes from pidgin English, an alteration of business English in the commercial pidgin used in Far Eastern ports in the mid-19th century. => business
pidgin (n.)
1876, from pigeon English (1859), the reduced form of the language used in China for communication with Europeans, from pigeon (1826), itself a pidgin word, representing a Chinese pronunciation of business. Meaning extended 1891 to "any simplified language."
双语例句
1. The restaurant owner could only speak pidgin English.
餐馆老板只会讲洋泾浜英语。
来自柯林斯例句
2. I tried to get my message across in my pidgin Italian.
我尝试用我的洋泾浜意大利语表达出我的意思。
来自《权威词典》
3. He's at ease speaking pidgin with the factory workers and guys on the docks.
他能轻松自如地用洋泾浜话和工厂工人及码头工人交谈。
来自柯林斯例句
4. Fang , Bubi , Ibo, and pidgin English are also widely spoken.
芳语 、 布比语、伊博语和皮钦英语也通用.
来自互联网
5. In pidgin English, he is the namowen ( number one ) on the port.