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emigrant

/em-i-gruhnt/US // ˈɛm ɪ grənt //UK // (ˈɛmɪɡrənt) //

移居国外,移民,移居国外者,出国

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who emigrates, as from his or her native country or region: They welcomed the emigrants from Italy.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : emigrating; leaving a country or region to settle in another.

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Examples

  • It’s told by 10 people affected by the disaster, such as a drug trafficker, an emigrant musician and an old woman selling produce in a market.

  • She notes that the countries with the greatest number of highly educated emigrants—India, China, and the Philippines—have some of the most travel-restrictive passports.

  • At City of Rocks, seek out Register Rock, etched with names and inscriptions from California Trail emigrants who passed through in the 19th century.

  • In 2018, thousands of emigrants from Africa and the Middle East risked their lives crossing the Mediterranean Sea to Europe in small, overcrowded boats.

  • Interviews with emigrants reveal that many of them have simply lost hope that things will ever get better in their home countries.

  • We had fallen in with the advanced corps of the Emigrant army under the command of the Prince of Condé.

  • The army of emigrant nobles at Coblentz, within the dominions of the King of Prussia, was rapidly increasing in numbers.

  • It is said to be not unusual, for the peasantry of Liverpool, to speak of Mr. Bell, as a benefactor of the emigrant domestics.

  • The messenger reports that they are on the march from Fort Bent with an emigrant train, and will not be here for a week.

  • They had been turned back from the emigrant station on Ellis Island, and were now sadly returning to Liverpool.