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Chilean is the word for a person from Chile, and for things that belong to that country: Chilean wine, Chilean Spanish, a Chilean writer. You can use it as an adjective (Chilean food) or as a noun (a Chilean, the Chileans). It is simply Chile + -an, the usual English way of making a 'person from / of that place' word, like Mexico → Mexican. Say it chi-LAY-an, with the weight on the middle. The country itself is still called Chile, not Chilean. Chile is that long, thin South American country between the Pacific and the , with Santiago as its capital.
智利的;智利人。
組成Chile + -an (of that place / a person from that place).
同家族的字
- Chilethe country the word is built from
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。
Chileanadj/ˈt͡ʃɪli.ən/
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Of, from, or pertaining to the nation or culture of Chile or its people.
- The Chilean Amphijubula Schust. (Schuster, 1970a) which has the facies of a small Frullania and agrees with Frullania in leaf insertion and branching, has a nontiered seta with 16 epidermal cell rows surrounding 4 inner rows.
- Gonzalo Lira, a 55-year-old Chilean American who was imprisoned in Ukraine after allegedly spreading Russian propaganda then violating his bail conditions, has died in a Ukrainian jail.
Chileannoun/ˈt͡ʃɪli.ən/
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A person from Chile or of Chilean descent.
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。