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释义 | 〔ethnic〕When in a Middle English text written before 1400it is said that a part of a temple fell down and "mad a gret distruccione of ethnykis,”one wonders why ethnics were singled out for death.The wordethnic in this context, however, means "gentile,” coming as it does from the Greek adjectiveethnikos, meaning "national, foreign, gentile.”The adjective is derived from the nounethnos, "people, nation, foreign people,” that in the plural phraseta ethnē meant "foreign nations.” In translating the Hebrew Bible into Greek,this phrase was used for Hebrewgōyīm, "gentiles"; hence the sense of the noun in the Middle English quotation.The nounethnic in this sense or the related sense "heathen" is not recorded after 1728, although the related adjective sense is still used. But probably under the influence of other words going back to Greekethnos, such asethnography and ethnology, the adjectiveethnic broadened in meaning in the 19th century. After this broadeningthe noun sense "a member of a particular ethnic group,”first recorded in 1945, came into existence.在一篇1400年以前的中古英语文章中写道,一座神殿的一部分倒塌了并“导致一个种族的彻底毁灭”,人们想知道为什么一个种族单单被挑出去死。但是ethnic 在这个上下文中的意思是“异教徒”, 来自于希腊语的形容词ethnikos , 意为“民族的,外来的,异教的”。该形容词源自名词ethnos, 意为“民族、种族、外来人”, 它的复数形式ta ethne, 意为“外来民族”。 在把希伯来圣经翻译成希腊语的过程中,这一词组被用作希伯来语中的goyim, 意为“异教徒”; 因此名词的含意在中世纪英语被引用。即使相关含意讲的名词ethnic 在1728年之后也未被收录,尽管这时相关的形容词含义已被应用, 但大概在那些可追溯到古希腊语ethnos 的词, 如ethnograthy 和 ethnology 的影响下, 形容词ethnic 在19世纪时对词义进行了扩充。 这次扩充后,名词词意为“某一特定的种族群体中的一员”,在1945年被首次收录并开始存在〔alien〕A person who is not included in a group; an outsider.局外人,外来人:被排斥在一群人之外的人;组织之外的人〔Oklahoma〕A state of the south-central United States. It was admitted as the 46th state in 1907. First explored by the Spanish, it was opened to settlement in 1889. The western part was organized in 1890 as the Oklahoma Territory, which was merged with the adjoining Indian Territory to form the present state boundaries. The Dust Bowl of the 1930's forced many farmers to move west as migrant laborers. Oklahoma City is the capital and the largest city. Population, 3,157,604.俄克拉荷马州:美国中南部的一个州。它于1907年被接纳为美国的第46个州。西班牙人首先探察了这一地区,在1889年它对外开放,允许外来人居住。1890年,其西部地区组成俄克拉荷马地区,它与印第安地区合并构成了现在的俄克拉荷马州。20世纪30年代的干旱尘暴迫使许多农民向西迁移成为流动劳工。俄克拉荷马城是其首府和最大的城市。人口3,157,604 |
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