核心畫面
You can picture nationality as the answer to "which people do you belong to?" — most often the legal answer stamped in a passport, but sometimes the older, deeper answer of shared language and way of life.
可以想成，nationality 回答的是「你屬於哪一群人」這個問題。最常見的答案是法律上的那一種：護照上印著、表格…更多收起
可以想成，nationality 回答的是「你屬於哪一群人」這個問題。最常見的答案是法律上的那一種：護照上印著、表格上要填的那一欄，某個國家在紙面上把你算作它的人。但同一個字也保留著一個更早、更貼近生活的答案——講同一種語言、過同樣日子的一群人。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。
nationalitynoun/ˌnæʃ.əˈnæl.ɪ.ti/
- 1
Legal membership of a particular nation or state, by origin, birth, naturalization, ownership, allegiance or otherwise.
- By living in the country for five years, you are entitled to get nationality.
- Stefi was born in Spain to a Brazilian father and a Chilean mother, so is eligible for three nationalities.
- 2
A people sharing a common origin, culture and/or language, and possibly constituting a nation-state.
- Rosa Luxemburg held that the recognition of the right of nationalities to self-determination was one of the Bolsheviks' gravest mistakes.
- 3
archaicNational, i.e. ethnic and/or cultural, character or identity.
- […]permit me to say that the Harranians were Arabs and that the Arabs in occupying Spain and Andalusia did not lose their nationality; they remained Arabs. […] The fact that they preserved their former religion, Sabaeanism, does not mean they should be considered foreign to the Arab nationality.
- 4
archaicNationalism or patriotism.
- ‘You are, to be sure, wonderfully free from that nationality: but so it happens, that you employ the only Scotch shoe-black in London.’
- 5
obsoletePolitical existence, independence or unity as a national entity.
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。