| 单词 | migrant |
| 释义 | migrant (once / 385 pages) nadj A migrant worker is someone who travels for a job––in the U.S., many farm workers migrate from Mexico every year to work on the harvest and then return home when their jobs are over. If you have traveled into a new country, you are said to have immigrated there, and you are an immigrant. An emigrant is someone who has left. Migrant doesn't refer to whether you are coming in or out––often it means someone who often travels back and forth, like migrant birds who migrate south every winter, year after year. WORD FAMILYmigrant: immigrant, migrants+/immigrant: immigrants USAGE EXAMPLESHe still sometimes implies he might let Syrian migrants flood Europe again to gain diplomatic leverage, as if the threat doesn’t also hurt Turkey’s security. Wall Street Journal(Jan 03, 2017) But the possibility is affecting migrants' remittance decisions. Reuters(Jan 02, 2017) Fifty Moroccan and five Spanish border guards were injured when 1,100 migrants tried to get over the fence on Sunday. BBC(Jan 02, 2017) 1n traveler who moves from one region or country to another Syn|Exp|Hypo|Hyper migrator Daniel Boone an American pioneer and guide and explorer (1734-1820) James BowieUnited States pioneer and hero of the Texas revolt against Mexico; he shared command of the garrison that resisted the Mexican attack on the Alamo where he died (1796-1836) Martha Jane BurkeUnited States frontierswoman and legendary figure of the Wild West noted for her marksmanship (1852-1903) Christopher CarsonUnited States frontiersman who guided Fremont's expeditions in the 1840s and served as a Union general in the American Civil War (1809-1868) Johnny AppleseedUnited States pioneer who planted apple trees as he traveled (1774-1845) David CrockettUnited States frontiersman and Tennessee politician who died at the siege of the Alamo (1786-1836) John Endecottborn in England; in 1629 he became the founder of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (1588-1665) Anne HutchinsonAmerican colonist (born in England) who was banished from Boston for her religious views (1591-1643) Peter MinnewitDutch colonist who bought Manhattan from the Native Americans for the equivalent of $24 (1580-1638) Miles StandishEnglish colonist in America; leader of the Pilgrims in the early days of the Plymouth Colony (1584-1656) Roger WilliamsEnglish clergyman and colonist who was expelled from Massachusetts for criticizing Puritanism; he founded Providence in 1636 and obtained a royal charter for Rhode Island in 1663 (1603-1683) Edward WinslowEnglish colonial administrator who traveled to America on the Mayflower and served as the first governor of the Plymouth Colony (1595-1655) departer, goer, leaver someone who leaves emigrant, emigre, emigree, outgoersomeone who leaves one country to settle in another evacueea person who has been evacuated from a dangerous place immigranta person who comes to a country where they were not born in order to settle there rushersomeone who migrates as part of a rush to a new gold field or a new territory colonist, settlera person who settles in a new colony or moves into new country Pilgrim, Pilgrim Fatherone of the colonists from England who sailed to America on the Mayflower and founded the colony of Plymouth in New England in 1620 pioneerone the first colonists or settlers in a new territory sourdougha settler or prospector (especially in western United States or northwest Canada and Alaska) homesteader, nester, squattersomeone who settles lawfully on government land with the intent to acquire title to it traveler, traveller a person who changes location 2adj habitually moving from place to place especially in search of seasonal work appalled by the social conditions of migrant life Syn migratory unsettled not settled or established |
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