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off-islander

/awf-ahy-luhn-der, of-/US // ˈɔfˈaɪ lən dər, ˈɒf- //

离岛者,岛外人士,非岛民,岛外人

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a temporary or seasonal resident of an island; island visitor or tourist.
    • : a person living on an offshore island.

Examples

  • Although the blood-spattered offices will be off-limits, staff have vowed to continue producing the magazine.

  • A passing off-duty school safety officer named Fred Lucas said that he had been told the man was a drug dealer.

  • The NOPD fired Knight in 1973 for stealing lumber from a construction site as an off-duty cop.

  • The off-year special election into which Duke threw himself drew little media notice at first.

  • Aaron Paul may play a young Han Solo in the first Star Wars spin-off.

  • A far-off volley rumbled over the plain, and a few birds stirred uneasily among the trees.

  • Jean was to be an architect—God knows why—but Aristide settled it, definitely, off-hand.

  • In favorable parts of the trail he must do better than that, to off-set losses of time where the going was most difficult.

  • There was something about the man that Matt liked, in spite of the deceit he had practised at the start-off of their acquaintance.

  • She did not take the broad, beaten road which led to the far-off plantation of Valmonde.