從西邊那一側來的人
兩個意思共用同一個動作:畫一條線,指線左邊的人。差別只在線畫在哪裡。
noun · B1
A person who comes from, or lives in, the western part of the world — countries such as the United States, Canada, the countries of western Europe, Australia and New Zealand.
西方人
Think of a map with a line drawn down it, and this word pointing at the people on the left-hand side. The word never tells you where the line is — the sentence around it does. Move the line around the globe and you get people from the West; move it inside one country and you get people from the west of that country.
Formed from western plus the ending -er, which turns a description into a person: the one from the western side.
字源資料顯示 westerner 是 western(西邊的)加上 -er 組成的。-er 的作用是把一個描述變成一個人。所以整個字可以想成「西邊那側的人」,方向先到,人才出現。
Wiktionary entry supplied in this packet (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1325333923), etymology_text: "From western + -er."
One branch
從西邊那一側來的人
兩個意思共用同一個動作:畫一條線,指線左邊的人。差別只在線畫在哪裡。
noun · B1
A person who comes from, or lives in, the western part of the world — countries such as the United States, Canada, the countries of western Europe, Australia and New Zealand.
西方人