英语词汇“emigration”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

WORD ORIGINemigrate

Origin:

1700-1800 Latin emigratus, past participle of emigrare, from migrare; ➔ MIGRATE

VERB TABLE

emigrate

Simple Form
Present	I, you, we, they	emigrate
	he, she, it	emigrates
Past	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	emigrated
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have emigrated
	he, she, it	has emigrated
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had emigrated
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will emigrate
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have emigrated

Continuous Form
Present	I	am emigrating
	he, she, it	is emigrating
	you, we, they	are emigrating
Past	I, he, she, it	was emigrating
	you, we, they	were emigrating
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have been emigrating
	he, she, it	has been emigrating
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had been emigrating
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will be emigrating
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have been emigrating

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES

Millie's brother Dennis, and his wife Joan, decided to emigrate the following year.
My grandparents emigrated from Italy.
My parents emigrated from Britain to New Zealand just before I was born.
Our son and his wife, Jenny, emigrated to Australia in 1988.
The couple emigrated in 1987 and are back here on holiday to see friends and relatives.
They later got married and emigrated to Australia in 1936.

EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS

At the same time, several dozen applicants per month actually got permission to emigrate.
Good telecommunications links can bring them closer to western markets, giving their skilled workers less incentive to emigrate.
In order to survive, the Prophet decided to emigrate.
Later they emigrate to Pittsburg, but can never escape their tangled past.
There is no need for them to emigrate to make money.
We failed to feed a starving people, leaving millions to die or emigrate.

THESAURUSto leave a place► leave

· Just as I was leaving the house, the phone rang.· We left early to avoid the traffic.

► go

especially spoken to leave somewhere: · Come on, boys, it’s time to go.· When does the next bus go?

► set off

especially British English to leave somewhere and begin a journey: · The following day we set off for Vienna.

► take off

if a plane takes off, it leaves the ground at the beginning of a flight: · Our plane took off late because of the fog.

► emigrate

to leave your own country in order to live permanently in another country: · In 2002, his family emigrated to New Zealand.

► depart

formal to leave – used especially about trains, buses, planes etc: · Coaches depart for the airport every 30 minutes.

Longman Language Activatorin or to a different country► abroad

in or to a foreign country: · Katya will make her first trip abroad next month.live/work/study etc abroad: · Our daughter wants to study abroad for a year.be abroad: · Mr Harris is abroad on business this week.

► overseas

in or to a foreign country, especially one that is a long distance from your own: · Much of the wood harvested in the northwest is shipped overseas.go/work/travel etc overseas: · Douglas often travelled overseas when he was in the army.

► emigrate

to leave your own country in order to live permanently in another country: · The couple emigrated in 1987 and are back here on holiday to see friends and relatives.emigrate from/to: · My grandparents emigrated from Italy.· Our son and his wife, Jenny, emigrated to Australia in 1988.

to leave your country or the area where you live► emigrate

to leave your own country to live permanently in another country, especially one which is far away: · Millie's brother Dennis, and his wife Joan, decided to emigrate the following year.emigrate to: · They later got married and emigrated to Australia in 1936.emigrate from: · My parents emigrated from Britain to New Zealand just before I was born.

► migrate

if people, birds, or animals migrate , they leave their country or area in large numbers, but usually only for a limited period, in order to find food, warmer weather etc: · How do birds know when to migrate, and how do they find their way back home?migrate to: · Where there are areas of high unemployment, workers tend to migrate to other, wealthier parts of the country.

► exodus

the movement of a large number of people who leave their country, city etc because they do not want to live there any longer, or because it is not safe for them to stay: · The exodus of refugees continued throughout the autumn.mass exodus (=when almost everyone leaves): · The island is facing a mass exodus of its young people.

COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► family

· Some of your family had already emigrated during the last century and set up as moneylenders.· He came from a prosperous or at least commercially successful Lincolnshire family which emigrated to Massachusetts in 1633 and 1634.

► people

· Already, 1,150 people emigrate each week, draining Hong Kong's talent, wealth and middle-class ballast.· In 1848 only 400 people emigrated on the Overland Trail to California.· Nineteenth-century Madeira had many problems similar to those of nineteenth-century Ireland, and many people emigrated in search of a better life.· Many people have to emigrate leaving the women and children behind.· Over the same period, over 400,000 immigrants have come to Britain and over a million people have emigrated to other countries.· An agricultural commune was established at Lindfield but seems to have been short-lived, and Lord Chichester helped 300 people to emigrate.· In other words, the same people who would have emigrated on their own will be assisted by government programmes.

► years

· It is comfortable enough, by Cairo standards, and represents the opportunity he emigrated from Aswan years ago to claim.

WORD FAMILYnounimmigration ≠ emigrationimmigrant ≠ emigrantverbimmigrate ≠ emigrate