核心畫面
You can picture African as a label that ties something back to one place on the map — the continent of Africa. Point it at a thing and it says where that thing comes from or belongs: African music, African elephants, African countries. Point it at a person and the same tie becomes who they are: an African.
可以想成：這個字像一條線，把某樣東西牽回地圖上的同一個地方——非洲。線的一端固定在那塊大陸，另一端可以接在很多東西上…更多收起
可以想成：這個字像一條線，把某樣東西牽回地圖上的同一個地方——非洲。線的一端固定在那塊大陸，另一端可以接在很多東西上：音樂、國家、動物、食物，接上去就是在說「這是從那裡來的、屬於那裡的」。同一條線接到人身上時，這個字就從形容詞變成名詞，直接指那個人。原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Africanadj/ˈæf.ɹɪ.kən/
- 1
Of or pertaining to Africa.
- Spain’s Melilla, one of two small exclaves of EU land on the African continent, has long been the strongest distillation of fortress Europe.
- 2
Black; (dated, offensive) synonym of negroid.
- The truth is that I know the guy had African skin and a shirt of some sort.
- In vivo and in vitro approaches in understanding the differences between Caucasian and African skin types: […]
Africannoun/ˈæf.ɹɪ.kən/
- 1
A native of Africa; also one ethnologically belonging to an African race.
- Africans constitute significantly growing populations not only in major urban centers such as New York, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Los Angeles, Houston, and Atlanta but also in small and midsize cities in states such as Ohio and Maine.
- But new research suggests another possibility: all Africans may have ancestry from “West Eurasian” populations which moved back into Africa after the “Out of Africa” event ~50,000 years ago.[…]
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。