| 单词 | alien-born |
| 释义 | > as lemmasalien-born alien-born adj. born in a foreign country. ΚΠ 1522 Act 14 Hen. VIII ii No Stranger, being Alien borne..shall take, retaine or keep into his or their seruices any maner of Journyman. a1626 F. Bacon Conc. Post-nati Scotl. in Three Speeches (1641) 14 If the Post-nati of Scotland, be not naturall borne, they are alien born and in no better degree at all, than Flemmings, French, Italians, [etc.]. 1700 S. Johnson 2nd Pt. Confut. 49 Purging the Realm, of which they and their Progenitors before them were the native Offspring, and clearing it of an Alien-born Brood. 1791 Viner's Gen. Abridgm. Law & Equity (ed. 2) II. 261 If a man goes over sea without the king's leave, and has issue there and dies, and the issue survives, the issue shall not be his heir inasmuch as he is alien born. 1898 F. N. Thorpe Constit. Hist. Amer. People I. xiii. 401 Louisiana had a large alien-born population. 1999 R. D. Francis Ethics for Psychologists ii. vii. 114 Should the local born of alien-born parents have parental wishes imposed on them against their will? < as lemmas |
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