核心畫面

Picture a group of people held together by where they come from and how they live — shared ancestry, language, food, festivals, the things passed down rather than chosen. This word points at that shared inheritance. Everything else it does depends on who is doing the looking: from inside, it is simply your background; from outside, it can slide into meaning 'not like us'.

可以想成:一群人因為來歷和生活方式而被綁在一起——共同的祖先、語言、食物、節慶,那些傳下來而不是自己挑的東西。這個字更多收起可以想成:一群人因為來歷和生活方式而被綁在一起——共同的祖先、語言、食物、節慶,那些傳下來而不是自己挑的東西。這個字指的就是那份共同的來歷。至於它接下來會走到哪裡,要看是誰在看:從裡面看,它只是你的背景;從外面看,它有時會滑向「跟我們不一樣的那些人」。

From the picture

帶著異國情調的風格

把「別人的傳統」當成一種風格來看:焦點從那群人本身,移到他們的食物、衣服、音樂在旁觀者眼中的新鮮感。

foreign-styled (food, music) · adjective · C1

Used to describe food, clothes, or music that comes from a faraway country and has a style that feels new or unusual.

異國風的 / 民族風的

舊時對少數族裔者的稱呼

把形容詞直接當成人來用;這是舊時的說法,現在的英文已經換掉了。

person of a minority group (dated) · noun · C1

An old word for a person who belongs to a racial or cultural group different from most other people in a country.

少數族裔的人(舊用法)

Also in this word

relating to a race or culture · adjective · C1

Relating to a group of people who share the same race, nation, or culture, and the customs and traditions they have.

族群的 / 民族的

原始詞典資料7 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。

ethnicadj/ˈɛθ.nɪk/

  • 1

    Of or relating to a group of people having common racial, ancestral, national, religious or cultural origins.

    • The violence began when Serbian troops went into Croatia ostensibly to aid armed ethnic Serbians trying to create their own autonomous states there.
    • Studies also show that absentee ballots cast by voters who are younger or from racial and ethnic minority groups are rejected at higher rates than other absentee ballots.
  • 2

    Characteristic of a foreign or a minority group's culture.

    • I like to eat ethnic food
  • 3

    Representative of a folk or traditional mode of expression.

    • Indeed, such ethnic music festivals were probably common throughout the country
    • contemporary artists are victims of the dichotomization of fine art and folk or ethnic art, where the latter must evince standardized techniques of simplicity, naivete, naturalism, and exoticism.
  • 4

    historicalHeathen, not Jewish, Christian, or Muslim.

ethnicnoun/ˈɛθ.nɪk/

  • 1

    An ethnic person, especially a foreigner or member of an immigrant community.

  • 2

    archaicA heathen, a pagan.

    • ..for the learned know that even in St. Jerome's time, the consul of Rome and his wife were both Ethnics, and about the same time the greatest part of the senate also...
    • ...And the people of God, redeemed and washed with Christ's blood, and dignified with so many glorious titles of saints and sons in the Gospel, are now no better reputed than impure ethnics and lay dogs...
  • 3

    The demonym of an Ancient Greek city.

    • Coinage with the ethnic ΑΝΤΙΟΧΕΩΝ ΠΡΟΣ ΕΥΦΡΑΤΗΝ survives from the mid-second century A.D.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。