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A pariah is a person a whole group has turned against. People will not sit with them, will not speak kindly about them, and will try not to be seen with them. This is stronger than unpopular. It says: we have pushed this person outside our circle, and we mean to keep them there.
A pariah is a person a whole group has turned against是一個整個團體都反過來對付的人 People will not sit with them, will not speak kindly about them, and will try not to be seen with them別人不會跟他坐在一起，不會說他的好話，也會盡量避免被看到跟他在一起 This is stronger than unpopular這比unpopular（不受歡迎）還要嚴重 It says: we have pushed this person outside our circle, and we mean to keep them there它說的是：我們把這個人推出了我們的圈子，而且是故意要讓他一直待在外面
You can use it for one person, and sometimes for a whole group that other groups treat this way. It is a serious word. You will meet it in news and essays more than in chat.
You can use it for one person, and sometimes for a whole group that other groups treat this way你可以用它形容一個人，有時候也可以用來形容一整群被其他群體這樣對待的人 It is a serious word這是個很嚴重的字 You will meet it in news and essays more than in chat你在新聞和論說文裡遇到它，比在閒聊裡更常見
Though actually, the word has a heavy past. It first named a people in South India who were kept at the very bottom of the old caste system, so some speakers now treat it with care, or avoid it when they are talking about real groups of people.
Though actually, the word has a heavy past不過實際上，這個字有一段沉重的過去 It first named a people in South India who were kept at the very bottom of the old caste system, so some speakers now treat it with care, or avoid it when they are talking about real groups of people它最初是指印度南部一群被壓在舊種姓制度最底層的人，所以現在有些人講到真實的族群時，會小心使用這個字，或乾脆避免用它
Used about one person that everyone has shut out, it is still common.
Used about one person that everyone has shut out, it is still common用來形容一個被大家排擠在外的人，這個用法仍然很常見
組成Does not split in English. It comes from Tamil பறையர் (paṟaiyar), from பறையன் (paṟaiyaṉ, “drummer”), from பறை (paṟai, “drum”) — or the close Malayalam line പറയർ / പറയൻ / പറ, with the same drummer sense. Parai / para was a large drum used to announce the king’s notices. The people who made a living with that drum were called paraiyar; in the caste system they were placed very low, and the name became an insult. That is how English got pariah. Some writers have also linked it to Sanskrit पर (para, “distant; outsider”), but the Tamil / Malayalam drummer story is the one usually told.
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。
pariahnoun/pəˈɹaɪə/
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Synonym of outcast: A person despised and excluded by their family, community, or society, especially a member of the untouchable castes in Indian society.
- What is this smoking that it should be considered a crime? I believe in my heart that women are jealous of it, as of a rival. They speak of it as of some secret, awful vice that seizes upon a man, and makes him a Pariah from genteel society.
- I’m a pariah, outlawed from Time Lord society.
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A similarly despised group of people or species of animal.
- As ecological conditions became unfavorable for pig raising, there was no alternative function which could redeem its existence. The creature became not only useless, but worse than useless—harmful, a curse to touch or merely to see—a pariah animal.
- This scenario could lead to war crimes the scale of which has not been seen in Europe since the Nazis — crimes that would make Vladimir Putin, his cronies and Russia as a country all global pariahs.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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。