- 1nB2
/ˈɪməɡrənt/
Someone who comes to another country from their own country in order to live there for good, not just to visit or to stay for a short time.
移民(移入者)
複數 immigrants
核心畫面
You can picture someone off a plane or a boat with everything they own, not as a visitor with a return ticket, but as a person who has come to stay — the country they arrive in is now where their life will be built.
可以想成一個人拖著全部家當走出機場或下船,手上沒有回程票:他不是來玩幾天、也不是短期出差,而是打算就在這個國家把日子…更多收起
可以想成一個人拖著全部家當走出機場或下船,手上沒有回程票:他不是來玩幾天、也不是短期出差,而是打算就在這個國家把日子過下去。重點在「移入」的方向——從別人的角度看,他是走進來的那一個。(同一個人在原本的國家會被叫做 emigrant,走出去的那一個。)原始詞典資料3 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。
immigrantnoun/ˈɪmɪɡɹənt/
- 1
A non-native person who comes to a country from another country to permanently settle there.
- Approximately 1.5 million Mexicans are descendants of Irish immigrants.
- What Alexis de Tocqueville saw in America was a society of immigrants, each of whom had begun life anew, on an equal footing. This was the secret of America: a nation of people with the fresh memory of old traditions who dared to explore new frontiers, people eager to build lives for themselves in a spacious society that did not restrict their freedom of choice and action.
- 2
A plant or animal that establishes itself in an area where it previously did not exist.
immigrantadj/ˈɪmɪɡɹənt/
- 1
Of or relating to immigrants or the act of immigrating.
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。