[N-COUNT 可数名词](尤指为寻找工作而迁移的)移民,移居者;流动工人 A migrant is a person who moves from one place to another, especially in order to find work.
The government divides asylum-seekers into economic migrants and genuine refugees.
政府把寻求避难者划分为经济移民与真正的难民。
...migrant workers following harvests northward.
随着收获季节到来而北上的外来务工人员
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[N-COUNT 可数名词]候鸟;迁徙动物Migrants are birds, fish, or animals that migrate from one part of the world to another.
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Migrant birds shelter in the reeds.
候鸟在芦苇丛中筑巢。
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mi·grantAWL/ˈmaɪɡrənt; NAmEˈmaɪɡrənt/noun1a person who moves from one place to another, especially in order to find work (为工作)移居者;移民◆migrant workers流动工人☞collocationsat
race
☞compare
emigrant
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immigrant
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economic migrant
2a bird or an animal that moves from one place to another according to the season 候鸟;迁徙动物migrantmigrantsmi·grant/ˈmaɪɡrənt; NAmEˈmaɪɡrənt/
1someone who goes to live in another area or country, especially in order to find work → emigrant, immigrantmigrant worker/labourer A lot of factory work is done by migrant workers.economic migrant (=someone who goes to live in another country because they are likely to find a better job there)2a bird or animal that travels regularly from one part of the world to anotherCOLLOCATIONSmigrant + NOUNa migrant worker· The strawberries are picked by migrant workers.migrant labourer British English, migrant laborer American English· The centre houses 50 migrant labourers.migrant labour British English, migrant labor American English (=work done by migrants)· Many farms rely on migrant labour.a migrant population (=the migrants who live in a particular place)· The town has a large migrant population.the flow of migrants (=the movement of people to or from a place)· the increasing flow of migrants into Californiaan influx of migrants (=the arrival of people in a particular place)· The growth of towns was due to an influx of migrants from the villages.adjectivesan illegal migrant· Thousands of illegal migrants were caught trying to cross the sea to England.an economic migrant (=someone who goes to another country to find a better job)· They are economic migrants, escaping terrible poverty in their home country.a rural migrant (=someone who moves from a country area to a city)· Rural migrants end up in the slums of Brasilia.a new/recent migrant· Some of the recent migrants have returned to their homes as the fighting finished.verbsa migrant comes from/to a place· A majority of the migrants had come from this region.attract migrants (=make migrants want to come to a place)· The settlement attracted new migrants and it expanded quickly.
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