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A burgher is someone who lives in a particular town, especially as a real member of that town — a citizen, not a visitor passing through. In older European history the word had a sharper social edge: burghers were the in the middle, not nobles and not peasants from the fields. They kept shops, sat on councils, and guarded town rights. In ordinary English now it can sound old or ; we would usually say resident or . A later, more special use grew out of the same idea: in Sri Lanka, and in some South African history, Burgher became the name of communities with mixed European ancestry. That is the same word, not a different one, but it is a narrower, local meaning. On the page it looks like burger, the sandwich.
市民、鎮民(舊時也指城裡的中產居民)
原始詞典資料5 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。
Burghernoun
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A member of a mixed-race ethnic group of Sri Lanka, consisting of descendants of European colonists and local people.
burghernoun/ˈbɜː(ɹ)ɡə(ɹ)/
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A citizen of a borough or town, especially one belonging to the middle class.
- When General Grant started on his tour around the world, the City of Brotherly Love was selected as the point of departure, and thence he set sail for Europe with the benisons of the sturdy burghers of the Quaker City.
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A citizen of a borough or town, especially one belonging to the middle class.
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A citizen of a borough or town, especially one belonging to the middle class.
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A prosperous member of the community; a middle-class citizen (may connote complacency).
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。