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单词 refugee centre
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refugee centre
b. attributive. Of, relating to, characteristic of, or for the use of a refugee or refugees. as refugee boat, refugee centre, refugee colony, refugee style, etc.
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1781 Jrnls. Continental Congr. 1774–89 (Libr. of Congr.) (1912) XIX. 20 To exchange, as heretofore, any exchangeable prisoners of the enemy, taken in refugee boats, for our people prisoners with the enemy.
1837 Knickerbocker 4 1837 Anomalies of expression, which have been stigmatized as the ‘stile réfugée’—the refugee style—a departure from purity, which was the result of their intercourse with strangers in foreign lands.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xx. 407 Animated by the true refugee hatred of the country which had cast him out.
1888 M. Grigsby Smoked Yank xxvi. 224 General Hazen asked me to take charge of the refugee train that was assigned to his division.
1903 Times 27 Oct. 4/1 The two chief refugee centres in this country are the town of Burgas..and the Rilo mountains.
1940 Manch. Guardian Weekly 23 Feb. 147 This is the first step in an ambitious plan for a large refugee colony..that will be one of the most important refugee projects in the New World.
1979 Economist 26 May 77/2 Today's refugee problem may look like a minor inconvenience compared with the exodus that may come when the food crisis begins to bite.
2008 New Scientist 26 Jan. 7/4 The lack of meat in refugee rations in east Africa has prompted a flourishing illegal trade in wild meat.
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