demotic

英 [dɪ'mɒtɪk] 美 [dɪ'mɑːtɪk]

• adj. 平民的；民众的；通俗的

demotic的英文翻译是什么意思，词典释义与在线翻译：

英英释义

Noun:

1. a simplified cursive form of the ancient hieratic script;

   "Demotic script was eventually replaced by Greek"
   

2. the modern Greek vernacular

Adjective:

1. of or written in or belonging to the form of modern Greek based on colloquial use

2. of or for the common people;

   "demotic entertainments"
   "demotic speech"
   "a poet with a keen ear for demotic rhythms"
   

demotic的用法和样例：

例句

用作形容词 (adj.)

1. I am referring to Languages such as Demotic Egyptian and Ionic Greek.
   我所指的语言是像通俗的埃及语和作为词根的希腊语。

经典引文

• Advertising has..to use simple, forceful, easily understandable wordss'demotic' language.

  出自：Listener

• Perhaps..we shall, like the Chinese, have some kind of demotic English and some kind of Mandarin?

  出自： M. Stott