喜樂美語
  1. 1
    nB2

    /ˌθɜːrd ˈwɜːrld/ · /ˌθɜːd ˈwɜːld/

    The poorer countries of the world that have little industry, mostly in Africa, in parts of Asia, and in parts of Central and South America. The sources say the phrase can cause offence, and that people now usually say 'developing countries' instead.

    第三世界

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

    這一義的完整解析還沒打開。訂閱後可以看到例句怎麼拆、常跟哪些字一起出現， 以及容易跟它搞混的字。

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核心畫面

You can think of this phrase as a line drawn on a map by someone standing on one side of it. The world gets sorted into a first group, a second group, and then a third: everything left over, named by its number rather than by itself. Everything the phrase does now comes from that leftover position — being the third group can mean staying out of a fight, or being the poorest part of the list, or simply being what an angry speaker points at to mean 'the bottom'. The label was never chosen by the people inside it, which is why both sources warn that it can land badly.

可以想成：這個說法像是一條線，由站在線這一邊的人畫下去的。世界被排成第一群、第二群，然後是第三群——剩下的那些，用一…更多收起可以想成：這個說法像是一條線，由站在線這一邊的人畫下去的。世界被排成第一群、第二群，然後是第三群——剩下的那些，用一個編號被帶過，而不是用自己的名字。它後來的每個用法，都從「被排在第三」這個位置長出來。被排在第三，可以是不加入哪一邊的爭鬥，可以是名單上最窮的那一段，也可以只是有人在生氣時隨手指的「最底層」。這個標籤從來不是被指稱的人自己選的。這也是為什麼兩份來源都提醒：這個詞可能傷到人。