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An Amerasian is a person from Asia who has one American parent and one Asian parent. English speakers first used the word a lot for children born in Asian countries, often when a US soldier was the American parent. It is not the same as Asian American. An Asian American is an American whose family is from Asia; an Amerasian is mixed, and the word points to Asia as the place they come from. Some people still use it in a quiet, factual way. Some families would rather name both sides more carefully, because the word carries a history of war and of children who were not always welcomed.
美亞混血(兒)(不是「亞裔美國人」;亞裔美國人是 Asian American)
原始詞典資料2 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。
Amerasiannoun/ˌæm.əˈɹeɪ.ʒən/
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A person of mixed American and Asian parentage, especially if their father was an American serviceman or temporary resident stationed in Asia.
- I am an Amerasian, why am I not allowed to stay here legally? Why do you try to keep me out, why do you discriminate against me?
- By contrast, the average age of the Amerasian AHA immigrant arriving in America was seventeen – about one year younger than the average age of U.S. servicemen in Vietnam during the war.
Amerasianadj/ˌæm.əˈɹeɪ.ʒən/
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Of mixed American and Asian parentage.
- Keane's speeches have not reduced the number of Amerasian births, but a decade of sleuthing has helped nearly 600 Amerasian orphans find new homes in the United States.
- In the mid-1960s, a letter arrives from his Amerasian son, now twelve years old and victimized by poverty […]
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。