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occidental

/ok-si-den-tl/US // ˌɒk sɪˈdɛn tl //UK // (ˌɒksɪˈdɛntəl) //

西方人,西方,欧美,欧美国家

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of, relating to, or characteristic of the Occident or its natives and inhabitants.
    • : western.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a native or inhabitant of the Occident.

Examples

  • The more violent aspect of the anti-apartheid movement was, safe to say, largely lost on Occidental College protestors.

  • “My first act of political activism was when I was at Occidental College,” he said in Senegal, on his 2013 trip to Africa.

  • Barry ultimately left the Choom Gang for Occidental College and then, in his junior year, transferred to Columbia in New York.

  • In the summer of 1982, Obama was in a long-distance relationship with a former Occidental College classmate named Alex McNear.

  • He is now a diplomacy and world affairs professor at Occidental College in Los Angeles.

  • My sole object has been to show Japan as she is, and to claim Occidental sympathy to such a degree as she may deserve.

  • It must be remembered that these few Armenians were the only women with whom we could talk and laugh in Occidental fashion.

  • An Occidental father and an Oriental head of a family are no longer really correlative terms.

  • The oldest of beast-tales available for occidental children is the story of Reynard the Fox.

  • To the Occidental stranger such a gathering suggests some social loadstone; but none exists.