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Example sentences for: mandarin

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In a recent BBC Symposium on the ethics of genetic engineering [October 22, 1989], George Steiner, the Oxford pundit and master of the mandarin style, took the negative view, largely because the margin for error was too great.
So, for example, the varieties of Chinese (Mandarin, Cantonese, etc.) are about as different as the Romance Languages (Portuguese, Spanish, etc.).
Subject: Anna Quindlen, Cultural Mandarin
The Northern Song Dynasty Ancient Lute Terrace (Guqintai) commemorates a 2,500-year-old legend of the deep friendship between a lute-playing mandarin and a music-loving woodcutter.
The deal talks, worked out in only three weeks in the city's appropriately named Mandarin Hotel, were carried out in utter secrecy.