| 释义 |
nisei|ˈniːseɪ|
Also nissei, and with capital initial. Pl. nisei.
[Jap., f. ni- second + sei generation.]
An American born of Japanese parents. Also attrib.
1943S. Menefee Assignment: U.S.A. 191 The War Relocation Authority, after a delay of many months, finally began to release those Nisei, or American-born Japanese. 1945Mencken Amer. Lang. Suppl. I. 608 The designation nisei..for Japanese of American birth was seldom heard, before Pearl Harbor, save on the Pacific Coast... Nisei is sometimes spelled nissei. 1948Newsweek 30 Aug. 20/1 The 29-year-old Nisei claimed that she had taken a job with the Tokyo radio merely ‘for the experience’. 1957New Yorker 16 Nov. 125/1 It would be difficult for a Japanese born student to..date a nisei girl. 1972J. Ball Five Pieces of Jade v. 51 The bespectacled, crew-cut, Babbitt-looking Nisei detective. 1973Publishers Weekly 3 Sept. 48/3 This diary, kept for eight months in 1942 by a 26-year-old Nisei. |