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An evacuee is a person sent away from a place because staying is dangerous — war, a fire, a flood, a chemical leak, a coming storm. The move is usually organised: a government, an army, or the police say “you must leave,” and people go to a safer town, a school hall, or another country for a time. The famous picture in British English is the Second World War, when city children were sent to the countryside; those children were evacuees, and many stories still use the word that way. Today news uses it for anyone taken out of a disaster zone. An evacuee is not automatically a refugee. A refugee has fled and often cannot safely go home, and may cross a border for a long stay; an evacuee is often meant to return when the danger has passed, and may only have moved to the next town. The word is a little formal — news and history more than playground talk — but it is the ordinary noun once you need to name the person, not just the action.
撤離者、被疏散的人(和「難民」不一樣:通常是被安排離開、並預期回去)
組成evacuate (to send people out of a dangerous place) + -ee (the person the action happens to). From French évacué / évacuée, from évacuer.
同家族的字
- evacuatethe verb this person-noun is built from
- evacuationthe organised leaving itself
- employeesame -ee ending: the person the verb is done to
原始詞典資料1 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。
evacueenoun/ɪˌvæk.juˈiː/
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A person who has been evacuated, especially a civilian evacuated from a dangerous place in time of war
- In the three weeks since, the city has repeatedly relocated evacuees on short notice. To reopen schools, it bused many to armories, turning drill floors into open dormitories for the first time since a 1980s lawsuit halted the practice. […] Confusion about who was in charge made the chaos worse, said Annette Bethea, 49, another evacuee from the Rockaways.
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。