- 1種族隔離（尤指南非舊制）
Apartheid was the official system in South Africa, for much of the twentieth century, that kept people apart by race. White people held the power; Black people and other groups could not live, vote, work, or go to school as equals. The word names that system, and people still use it when they talk about that history. Though actually, speakers also stretch it: they may call any hard, official separating of groups apartheid, even outside South Africa — housing apartheid, educational apartheid. That stretched use sounds strong and political; some people feel the word should stay with the South African history. There is a rare verb, to apartheid, meaning to force that kind of separation, but almost everyone uses only the noun.
組成Borrowed from Afrikaans apartheid, literally “separateness, apartness” (1929, in a South African political setting). Afrikaans apart (“separate”) + the suffix -heid, which is the cousin of English -hood.
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以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
apartheidnoun/əˈpɑːtheɪt/
- 1
historicalThe policy of racial segregation in South Africa from 1948 to 1994.
- She don't care about the rest at all / She's got a system they call apartheid / It keeps a brother in a subjection
- The premise of apartheid was that whites were superior to Africans, Coloureds and Indians, and the function of it was to entrench white supremacy forever.
- 2
Any similar policy of racial segregation or separation and discrimination, particularly when in favor of a minority rule.
- The 1973 Apartheid Convention conferred universal jurisdiction to the state signatories to prosecute those who commit apartheid.
- When the doors of a business are open to the public, they must be open to all regardless of race if apartheid is not to become engrained in our public […] .
- 3
A policy or situation of segregation based on some specified attribute.
- Fifteen minutes drive to the Brown Trout was guaranteed to satisfy my appetite because there, as with other clubs and hotel bars, a form of sex apartheid was practised. The males assembled in the region of the bar and the opposite gender either sat discreetly detached or strayed outside to gossip gaily among themselves.
- In these annual reports, the religious apartheid practices in India are not mentioned at all.
apartheidverb/əˈpɑːtheɪt/
- 1
To impose a policy of segregation of groups of people, especially one based on race.
- Yes, apartheiding the apartheiders, is what the rest of the world is doing.
- Whatever the reason the blacks have for "apartheiding" Boston, whites should be all for it.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。