| 释义 |
non-American, a. (n.)
[non- 3.]
Not American. Occas. as n., one who is not an American.
1904G. Saintsbury Hist. Criticism III. 640 The poet who seems to some possibly rash non-American persons to divide with Poe the prize due to the worthiest in American poetry, was also a critic—less of the professional kind, much more borné, but more concentrated. 1924S. P. Sherman Genius of America 213 He laughed at all the non-American world. 1936Mind XLV. 15 Insufficiently known and appreciated, not only among non-American philosophers, but even among his own colleagues in the United States. 1962H. A. Gleason in Householder & Saporta Problems in Lexicography 88 Dictionaries with good..citations..have been mostly produced by people outside the fraternity—non-American linguists, or people laying no claim at all to the title of linguist. 1965J. Potter in Glass & Eversley Population in Hist. xxvii. 631 For non-Americans,..it can have an important bearing on their own attempts to interpret the European..data. |