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countryman

/kuhn-tree-muhn/US // ˈkʌn tri mən //UK // (ˈkʌntrɪmən) //

乡下人,乡间人,乡巴佬,乡下佬

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural coun·try·men.

    • : a native or inhabitant of one's own country.
    • : a native or inhabitant of a particular region.
    • : a person who lives in the country.
    • : an unsophisticated person, as one who lives in or comes from a rural area; rustic.

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Examples

  • The document with the official result arrived the next day and little by little I saw how my countrymen who had obtained asylum were released, even one whose hearing was the same day as mine without a lawyer and without evidence.

  • On the day of his departure, a fellow countryman said goodbye with tears in his eyes and we were all very happy for little Piké, because he had won a nine-month battle.

  • I subject my countrymen to a second interrogation when they return, trying to calm my terror.

  • The ques­tion was how to attain it without compromising their countrymen.

  • Few players have held themselves together under such scrutiny and for such symbolic stakes in the eyes of their countrymen.

  • She later went on to appear (from 2000 to 2003) in the series Clarissa and the Countryman, with Johnny Scott.

  • In Charlie Countryman, Evan Rachel Wood is Gabi, the girl you meet for two seconds and instantly fall for.

  • “The human species is a deeply flawed biological product”—so wrote my countryman Arthur Koestler.

  • But, of course, this "other" is most often anything but; it is actually friend, neighbor and countryman.

  • Urs Fischer, the young contemporary artist and fellow countryman, stands apart.

  • Every year since then the Chinese have gathered in the city and remembered the day when their countryman's life was saved.

  • Went to work in my own way; was a countryman just come into a snug bit of inheritance, looking out for a corner of land.

  • You are only an honest countryman wandering amid a crowd of courtiers—virtue in danger amid a myriad of vices.

  • Her face, notwithstanding its emaciation, reminded him of Latta, the wife of his friend and fellow-countryman Schmidt.

  • In advance, with an officer, was a man attired in the dress of a countryman, who pointed in the direction of the cottage.