yankee中文什么意思

n.
1.杨基佬〔尤指老式作风的新英格兰人〕。
2.〔美南部〕(南北战争时的)北军；北部人，北方佬。
3.〔英口〕美国佬；〔pl.〕【商业】美国铁路股份。adj.
+更多解释...1.美国北方人的。
2.美国佬式的。
短语和例子
-ism 美国佬脾气；美国式；美国语风，美国腔。

• daddy yankee:    洋基老爹
• ingenious yankee:    精明的北方佬
• the magnificent yankee:    神奇的美国佬

例句与用法

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1. His brisk manner branded him a yankee .
   他举止麻利，一看就是个北方佬。
2. We sang these lines to the tune of yankee doodle .
   我们用扬基歌的曲调唱这几句歌词。
3. A connecticut yankee is similarly uneven .
   《在亚瑟王朝廷里的康涅狄格州美国人》也同样瑕瑜互见。
4. Well the yankees ate babies and the rebs starved prisoners .
   是啊，北方佬吃孩子，南方佬虐待俘虏。
5. The old yankees stopped at nothing to subjugate the irish immigrants .
   老美国佬不顾一切地要制服爱尔兰移民。

百科释义

The term Yankee (sometimes shortened to Yank) has several interrelated meanings, referring to people from the United States. Within the US it refers to people originating in the northeastern US, or still more narrowly New England, where application of the term is largely restricted to the descendants of colonial English settlers in the region.