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immigrate

/im-i-greyt/US // ˈɪm ɪˌgreɪt //UK // (ˈɪmɪˌɡreɪt) //

移居,移民,入境,移居国外

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v.无主动词 verb
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    im·mi·grat·ed, im·mi·grat·ing.

    • : to come to a country of which one is not a native, usually for permanent residence.
    • : to pass or come into a new habitat or place, as an organism.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    im·mi·grat·ed, im·mi·grat·ing.

    • : to introduce as settlers: to immigrate cheap labor.

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Examples

  • Born in a Ghanaian refugee camp to Liberian parents who were fleeing a civil war, Davies immigrated to Canada with his family when he was 5.

  • “I feel powerless not being able to pay them,” Solis, who immigrated from Mexico as a teenager, said in Spanish.

  • The Soviet Union had denied their request to immigrate to Israel, given how Israel’s Western allies and its victory in the Six-Day War in 1967 had led to frosty diplomatic relations between it and the Soviet Union.

  • The first project we remember working on together was drawing scenes from the picture books that our mom brought with her when she immigrated from the USSR.

  • Yang’s parents had both immigrated from Taiwan, and met in grad school.

  • The irony in it, today, is that it encourages Jews from countries like France to immigrate into Israel, thus making it stronger.

  • It was easier for my family to leave the Soviet Union and immigrate to Canada!

  • Scores of Chinese in Guangdong province began to immigrate to California through the Port of San Francisco.

  • Two individuals didn't immigrate to the United States from the Chechen Republican in Russia.

  • Many others have endured huge obstacles and lengthy waits to immigrate legally.

  • If island formed continent, some species would emerge and immigrate.

  • The wretched survivors, who are there set at liberty, are immediately seduced to "immigrate" to the West Indies.

  • Sure I'm at the jumpin'-off place now, and to immigrate furder would be to put meself in the hands of the murtherin' redskins.

  • The real Portuguese immigrate in families and show very little money on landing.

  • The desire to immigrate, stimulated by the transportation companies, spread like a fever.

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