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boat person

船民,船夫,船员,船家

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n.名词(复数) plural noun
  1. 1
    • : refugees who have fled a country by boat, usually without sufficient provisions, navigational aids, or a set destination, especially those who left Indochina by sea as a result of the fall of South Vietnam in 1975.

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  • Really, is it any wonder that fluoride should freak people out?

  • Placed in drinking water, fluoride can serve people who otherwise have poor access to dental care.

  • There was a lot of positive feedback from people interested in non-gender binary people.

  • Then add in all bored people, as well as people whose job it is to report on celebrities.

  • If anything the work the two cops and the maintenance guy were doing deserves more respect and probably helped a lot more people.

  • The Majesty on high has a colony and a people on earth, which otherwise is under the supremacy of the Evil One.

  • The people here retained the same paganism and barbarity, only they were not so dangerous, being conquered by the Muscovites.

  • All our people were well mounted, and armed with rifles, pistols, and bowie-knives.

  • “This is a distressing predicament for these young people,” thought Mr. Pickwick, as he dressed himself next morning.

  • Few people, I think, realize that, and fewer still realize the reasonable consequences of that.