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单词 westerner
释义 west·ern·er
\R ˈwestə(r)nər, -R -tənə(r also -tənə(r\ noun
(-s)
Usage: usually capitalized
1.
 a. : a native or inhabitant of a western region
  < Westerners from French West and Equatorial Africa — Michael Barbour >
 especially : a native or inhabitant of the western U.S.
  < the nasal twang of a Westerner >
 b. : a native or inhabitant of an occidental country
  < Westerners do not understand Asiatics — H.B.Acton >
 c. : a supporter of the ideals and policies of the noncommunist countries of Europe and America
  < many westerners mistakenly supposed that because the Soviet mind was politically mutilated it could not achieve much in science and technology — E.K.Lindley >
2.
 a. : an adherent or advocate of western beliefs and practices
  < a Westerner who wants to grapple with this subject, must try, for a few minutes, to slip out of his native Western skin and look … through the eyes of the great non-Western majority of mankind — A.J.Toynbee >
 b. : a member of the 19th-century Russian intelligentsia advocating the adoption of western European institutions or culture — compare slavophilism
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