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exile

/eg-zahyl, ek-sahyl/US // ˈɛg zaɪl, ˈɛk saɪl //UK // (ˈɛɡzaɪl, ˈɛksaɪl) //

流放,流亡,流亡者,流放者

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : expulsion from one's native land by authoritative decree.
    • : the fact or state of such expulsion: to live in exile.
    • : a person banished from his or her native land.
    • : prolonged separation from one's country or home, as by force of circumstances: wartime exile.
    • : anyone separated from his or her country or home voluntarily or by force of circumstances.
    • : the Exile, the Babylonian captivity of the Jews, 597–538 b.c.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    ex·iled, ex·il·ing.

    • : to expel or banish from his or her country; expatriate.
    • : to separate from country, home, etc.: Disagreements exiled him from his family.

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Examples

  • It’s a story about Ireland and exile and carrying the ghosts of family and home through time.

  • Michael then abandoned his profession and left the country, heading for England and a life of permanent, hopefully peaceful, exile.

  • That fear has been significantly reduced since Gammeh’s defeat and subsequent exile.

  • Some exiles who used their wits to enter America were collaborators, even war criminals.

  • For one, they’re without their head coach-in-exile, Dan Hughes, after he wasn’t approved, for medical reasons, to enter the bubble.

  • A twinned, imagined narrative of a fictitious Fidel Castro and a Miami exile intent on assassinating him.

  • After Olympic boxer Guillermo Rigondeux defected, his family suffered a form of domestic exile.

  • Both the Republicans in Congress and the American-Cuban community in exile have been speaking out against the warming relations.

  • He was eventually allowed to leave, but he was forced to resign as ambassador and now lives in Washington, effectively in exile.

  • Instead of wallowing in comedy exile, Slate was earning a book deal.

  • The foster-child remained behind to share the hut of the political exile.

  • The exile and the maiden, in short, fell in love with each other, and they mutually vowed never to be parted but by force.

  • He accordingly betook himself to London, where he had social resources which would, perhaps, make exile endurable.

  • He never returned, but died in England on June 3, 1780, an unhappy and a homesick exile from the country which he loved.

  • The exile too, far from home and kindred smokes on as he muses of happier hours gone never to return.