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单词 emigrate
释义
emigrate
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v

If you move to a different country, you emigrate. For example, if you are Canadian and you emigrate to Italy, you aren't on vacation — you are making Italy your new home. Benvenuti!
The verb emigrate comes from the Latin word emigrare, which means “move away,” or “depart from a place.” The words emigrate and immigrate both mean that a person has decided to permanently live in a foreign country, but to emigrate is to leave your country, and to immigrate is to come into a new country. To emigrate is to exit.
CHOOSE YOUR WORDS
emigrate / immigrate / migrate

Going somewhere? Emigrate means to leave one's country to live in another. Immigrate is to come into another country to live permanently. Migrate is to move, like bird in the winter.

The choice between emigrate,immigrate, and migrate depends on the sentence's point of view. Emigrate is to immigrate as go is to come. If the sentence is looking at the point of departure, use emigrate. The point of arrival? Immigrate. Talking about the actual process of moving? Use migrate.

Emigrate means you are exiting your current homeland:

People are always saying there's no quality of life in Russia, and everyone wants to emigrate," he said. (New York Times)

Immigrate means you are coming in to a country to live:

Citizens from 17 European Union countries were given freedom to immigrate to Switzerland in 2007. (Business Week)

Migrate means to move, like those crazy Monarch butterflies that migrate from Canada to Mexico and back. It doesn't have to be a permanent move, but migrate is more than a weekend away, and it's not just for butterflies. "Snowbirds" are people who migrate south for the winter and come back north when the snow melts, or someone might migrate to another part of the country for work or to be closer to family. Here are some examples:

Nevertheless, it has often been assumed that dinosaurs did migrate.(Scientific American)

People are prepared to travel and migrate within America. (Business Week)

If you have ants in your pants and you have to move, remember:

Emigrate is from the point of view of the departure. Think exit.

Immigrate is from the point of view of the destination. Think come in.

Migrate is all about the moving. Think move.

WORD FAMILY
emigrate: emigrated, emigrates, emigrating, emigration+/emigration: emigrations
USAGE EXAMPLES
After the war, she emigrated to the United States, settling in New York.
Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017)
In due course, Sharp emigrated to the US and built a career as a screenwriter.
The Guardian(Dec 30, 2016)
I was born in Ireland & my family & I emigrated to Canada.
New York Times(Jun 30, 2016)
v leave one's country of residence for a new one
Many people had to emigrate during the Nazi period
Ant|Hypo|Hyper
immigrate
come into a new country and change residency
expatriate
move away from one's native country and adopt a new residence abroad
migrate, transmigrate
move from one country or region to another and settle there
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