| 单词 | first-generation |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfirst-generation b. Modified by an ordinal number, forming adjectives, as first-generation, second-generation, etc.: designating a member of the first (or second, etc.) generation of a family to do something or live somewhere; spec. designating a naturalized immigrant or a descendant of immigrant parents, esp. in the United States. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > migrant > [adjective] > relating to immigrants > types of immigrant salt water1708 transplanted1765 new chum1865 first-generation1896 second-generation1928 totok1963 1896 S. A. Barnett Let. Sept. in H. Barnett Canon Barnett (1918) II. 119 There are the usual Americans. One ‘first-generation man’, as he calls himself..has made a great fortune. 1928 Social Forces 7 242/2 Even in such cosmopolitan groups as the school the second generation Jew encounters some antagonism. 1951 M. McLuhan Mech. Bride 67/1 First-generation immigrants who quickly made good. 1953 E. Coxhead Midlanders vi. 153 Herself a second-generation college girl, she now under-valued the freedoms the pioneers had won. 1960 Guardian 5 Nov. 3/6 A second-generation Kenyan whose father was one of the pioneer settlers in the White Highlands. 1968 ‘L. Black’ Outbreak ix. 86 The number of notifications [of smallpox] will rise sharply, as second and third generation cases emerge from the incubation period. 1980 R. D. Scherini Ital. Amer. Community of San Francisco i. 11 It can be said that second-generation Italian Americans have been economically successful in San Francisco. 1996 Independent on Sunday 13 Oct. (Review Suppl.) 59/1 Chris Geale, a third-generation fish and chipper, has agreed to share his know-how. 2007 J. Ferris And then we came to End ii. i. 237 These first-generation Americans..spend their morning in the dark recess of a loading dock power-spraying the asphalt and the Dumpster. < as lemmas |
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