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    Xenophobic is the adjective from xenophobia: showing fear or hatred of people from other countries.

    Xenophobic is the adjective from xenophobia是從xenophobia來的形容詞：showing表示出 of people from other countries對其他國家人的 fear or hatred恐懼或憎恨

    You use it about a person ("a xenophobic politician"), about words and behaviour ("xenophobic comments", "a xenophobic joke"), and about rules or laws ("a xenophobic policy"). It fits both before a noun and after be: "That remark was xenophobic." Like xenophobia, it is heavy.

    You use it about a person你可以用它形容人 ("a xenophobic politician")（像「a xenophobic politician」）, about words and behaviour也形容言論和行為 ("xenophobic comments", "a xenophobic joke")（像「xenophobic comments」、「a xenophobic joke」）, and about rules or laws還形容規則或法律 ("a xenophobic policy")（像「a xenophobic policy」）. It fits both before a noun and after be它可以放在名詞前面，也可以放在be動詞後面: "That remark was xenophobic."像「That remark was xenophobic.」 Like xenophobia, it is heavy跟xenophobia一樣，語氣很重

    It is not a neutral description — it is a judgement, and the person you say it about will almost certainly disagree. So in real speech people often it, or add evidence: "That sounds xenophobic to me", "what she said came across as xenophobic".

    It is not a neutral description它不是中立的描述 — it is a judgement而是一種評斷, and the person you say it about will almost certainly disagree而你說的那個人幾乎一定會不同意. So in real speech people often soften it所以實際說話時大家常常會講得委婉一點, or add evidence或加上證據: "That sounds xenophobic to me"像「That sounds xenophobic to me」, "what she said came across as xenophobic"「what she said came across as xenophobic」

    You can also see it used as a noun for a person ("he is a xenophobic"), but that is uncommon and ; almost everyone says "he is xenophobic" or "he is a racist" instead.

    You can also see it used as a noun for a person你也會看到它被當成名詞指人 ("he is a xenophobic")（像「he is a xenophobic」), but that is uncommon and clumsy但這種用法不常見，也很彆扭; almost everyone says幾乎大家都會說 "he is xenophobic" or "he is a racist" instead「he is xenophobic」或「he is a racist」來代替

    The adverb xenophobically exists but is rare enough that you may never need it.

    The adverb xenophobically exists副詞xenophobically是存在的 but is rare enough that you may never need it但少見到你可能永遠用不到

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組成xeno- "foreign, strange" (Greek xénos) + -phobic "fearing" (Greek phóbos, fear). It is xenophobia turned into a describing word.

同家族的字

  • xenophobiathe noun for the same thing; -ic makes the adjective
  • xenonsame Greek xénos 'strange'
  • phobicsame -phobic ending from Greek phóbos 'fear'

原始詞典資料2 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。

xenophobicadj/ˌzɛn.əˈfəʊ.bɪk/

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    Exhibiting or characterised by xenophobia, a fear or hatred of strangers, foreigners, or extraterrestial life.

    • Residents of Plettenberg Bay this week launched violent xenophobic attacks on foreign Africans living in informal settlements, beating them and ransacking their houses
    • It has not yet promised much in the way of serious debate about the migrant crisis or the EU’s failure to tackle it in a humane and coordinated manner, in the context of the Italian government’s increasingly xenophobic policies.

xenophobicnoun/ˌzɛn.əˈfəʊ.bɪk/

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    A xenophobe.

    • So Buzz Bissinger sees fit that we give up on the ideal of Olympism and give in to xenophobics, terrorists, drug abusers, profiteers and human rights abusers?

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。