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un-american

/uhn-uh-mer-i-kuhn/US // ˌʌn əˈmɛr ɪ kən //

非美国人,非裔美国人,非美国,非美国人的

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : not American; not characteristic of or proper to the U.S.; foreign or opposed to the characters, values, standards, goals, etc., of the U.S.

Examples

  • Fluoride first entered an American water supply through a rather inelegant technocratic scheme.

  • Have you looked around the American Dental Association website for an explanation of how fluoridation actually works?

  • The best comparison here for an American audience is, well, Internet stuff.

  • Great American leaders have long contributed profound thoughts of tremendous consequence to the public discourse.

  • Sadly, it appears the American press often doesn't need any outside help when it comes to censoring themselves.

  • We prefer the American volume of Hochelaga to the Canadian one, although both are highly interesting.

  • We can readily see how this might have been, from numerous experiments made with both American and European varieties.

  • He was in early life a shipcarpenter, and subsequently American consul at Antwerp.

  • The difficulty of educating handlers of bills in distant places as to American credits.

  • But you are English, or you are American; and men of those countries never misunderstand a woman, even if she is in trouble.