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Ethnicity Ethnic Italian Group 英 Eθ'Nɪsəti] 美 Eθ'Nɪsəti N.种族划分;属于少数民族

英语单词 ethnicity
英美音标 英 [eθ'nɪsəti] 美 [eθ'nɪsəti]
中文释义 n.种族划分;属于少数民族
英语例句 (1) The whole idea of ethnicity is a spurious hangover from the past anyway.
(2) When they looked at specific groups, stratified according to age or ethnicity, the results were similar.
中文例句 (1) 无论怎么说,整个种族划分思想都是过去的荒谬残留。
(2) 观察依年龄和种族划分的不同组别后所得结果也相似。
vocabulary简明 A person's ethnicity is their ethnic traits, classification, or association. If your ethnicity is Italian, you might speak Italian in the home and eat Italian food. Or you might simply refer to yourself as Italian and identify with your ethnicity in no other way.
vocabulary扩展 Usually, ethnicity is a collective noun, but in the singular, an ethnicity is a particular ethnic group. The adjective ethnic relates to large groups of people who have certain racial, cultural, religious, or other traits in common. In Middle English, ethnic meant heathen or pagan. The word is from Late Latin ethnicus, from Greek ethnikos "foreign," from ethnos "nation."
柯林斯解释
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[N-VAR 可变名词]种族特点;种族渊源 Ethnicity is the state or fact of belonging to a particular ethnic group.
  • He said his ethnicity had not been important to him.

    他说他的种族渊源对他向来都不重要。

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