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单词 immigrant
释义
immigrantim‧mi‧grant /ˈɪməɡrənt/ ●●○ W3 AWL noun [countable] Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • Jae Min's parents are immigrants from South Korea.
  • Santa Clara was a mesh of Italian, Mexican and German immigrants in the 1800s.
  • The bill would have cut off government aid even to legal immigrants.
  • The new immigrants come mainly from Asia and Latin America.
  • The winery was started by an Italian immigrant to California.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Between 1820 and 1920 some 35 million immigrants reached the United States.
  • From people worried about the country being marginally swamped by immigrants, no doubt.
  • It was these immigrants who did so much for the pioneer areas and young industries.
  • Mr Stoiber has been in the forefront of those calling for tighter restrictions on asylum-seekers and ordinary immigrants.
  • Once on the job, strong immigrant networks mean that other immigrants tend to be hired when new openings emerge.
  • There is also some evidence that black immigrants are more entrepreneurial than native-born blacks.
  • This is a nation of immigrants.
  • With illegal immigrants, the decision will be easy.
Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatorsomeone who enters another country
someone who enters another country in order to live there permanently: · The new immigrants come mainly from Asia and Latin America.immigrant from: · Jae Min's parents are immigrants from South Korea.immigrant to: · The winery was started by an Italian immigrant to California.legal/illegal immigrant: · The bill would have cut off government aid even to legal immigrants.
someone who enters another country because they are not safe in their own country, for example because there is a war there: · The government has been unable to provide enough tents for all the refugees.refugee from: · Most of the refugees from the former war zone have now been sent back.political refugee: · Britain has traditionally been a safe haven for political refugees.
someone who asks to be allowed to enter another country because they are not safe in their own country, especially because of their political beliefs or activities: · Too often asylum-seekers are treated like criminals.· Officially recognized asylum-seekers cannot be deported.
when people enter a country in order to live there permanently: · Most people in the UK believe that immigration has enriched the economy and national culture.· Immigration reached its peak in the 1950s.· Immigration officials stopped and arrested the man at JFK airport.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYadjectives
· Large numbers of illegal immigrants have found their way into the country.
· Two thirds of legal immigrants to the country came from Europe and Canada.
· The majority of workers at the factory are recent immigrants.
· There has been a recent increase in the number of African immigrants.
(=someone who is an immigrant, or whose parents were immigrants)· Her parents were first-generation immigrants from Poland.
(=someone whose parents or grandparents were immigrants)· These boys are second-generation immigrants who grew up speaking English.
phrases
(=a large number of them)· A new wave of immigrants arrived in the 1950s.
(=a very large number of immigrants that arrive at the same time)· He suggested the country would experience a flood of immigrants.
immigrant + NOUN
· A quarter of the school’s students are from immigrant families.
· Many immigrant workers had to live in deprived areas.
· There are shops catering for the various immigrant communities.
· The immigrant population increased rapidly during the 1970s.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
· An estimated seven million illegal immigrants are brought into Europe each year.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
· There is also some evidence that black immigrants are more entrepreneurial than native-born blacks.· Soon, two-thirds of the black immigrants had left the state.· The new black immigrants at the bottom of the pile were hardly mentioned.· One of the consequences of this is an ambivalent attitude to black immigrants.
· The president beefs up the border controls and institutes checks against the employment of illegal immigrants.· Only 37 percent of Latinos agreed, with 56 percent saying that illegal immigrants had a good effect.· Meanwhile, the nightly flood of illegal immigrants into Imperial Beach slowed to a trickle.· It also would open Arizona companies to lawsuits from legal residents who are replaced in their work by illegal immigrants.· And does anyone doubt that the fleeing illegal immigrants will be rewarded handsomely?· The judge also barred provisions that would have allowed state agencies to investigate and report alleged illegal immigrants.
· C., a proposal in Congress would end federal financing for health and welfare services for legal immigrants.· When it comes to legal immigrants, Californians are liberal enough.· When he signed the bill, Clinton said he would fight this year to restore benefits for legal immigrants.· Groups of legal immigrants have started to demonstrate at the Capitol to express their demands for restoration of cuts relevant to them.· The nation had 11. 8 million legal immigrants in 1990, according to the Census Bureau.· The bill would also have denied numerous benefits and services to legal immigrants.
· The plan envisaged that most of the new Soviet immigrants would find work in the private sector.· Basically, these are jobs for the unskilled, including the new immigrants coming in.· The new black immigrants at the bottom of the pile were hardly mentioned.· And each new wave of immigrants gives new targets to old prejudices.· The variety of languages spoken on the streets and in shops is extraordinary - for new immigrants as well as the old Anglo settlers.· After each new wave of immigrants became enfranchised, they began electing people of their own background, she said.· The Hanmer family were the first of the new immigrants to appear and they were still there 120 years later.
· She herself found time now to help with poorer immigrants.· In other words, his message is: no poor immigrants please, just highly qualified ones.
· And many of the town-dwellers of 1880 were recent immigrants from the countryside.· The impact of this recent influx of immigrants on education in the United States has been significant.· Many had considerable reading and writing skills, but about 20 percent were recent immigrants, often with language difficulties.· All three varietals seem to be adapting well to California, considering that they are recent immigrants.· These were mainly long-standing residents of Maputo, not recent immigrants.
· The plan envisaged that most of the new Soviet immigrants would find work in the private sector.· The budget was based on the arrival of an estimated 300,000 Soviet immigrants during 1991.· Some figures showed that as many as 40 percent of Soviet immigrants were unemployed.
· Wilson tried, with little success, to get the federal government to reimburse the state for providing services to undocumented immigrants.· There has been harsh rhetoric against documented and undocumented immigrants, as well as attempts to deprive them of essential human services.
VERB
· George Pataki who criticized the reform plan for denying Medicaid benefits to legal immigrants who are not citizens.· Among their complaints: The new law cuts food stamps and bans some federal welfare benefits for some legal immigrants.· The proposal would maintain Supplemental Security Income and Medicaid benefits for disabled legal immigrants who have not become citizens.· He attacks illegal immigration and opposes welfare benefits for illegal immigrants.
· She herself found time now to help with poorer immigrants.· Unacceptable police behaviour in Roissy's waiting area has been repeatedly denounced by organisations that help immigrants.
· His top opponents were snagged by the Zoe Baird affair; they too had hired illegal immigrants to care for their children.· President Clinton issued an order Tuesday barring federal contracts from companies that knowingly hire illegal immigrants.
Word family
WORD FAMILYnounimmigration ≠ emigrationimmigrant ≠ emigrantverbimmigrate ≠ emigrate
 someone who enters another country to live there permanently → emigrant:  an illegal immigrant a new wave of immigrants from the Middle EastCOLLOCATIONSadjectivesan illegal immigrant· Large numbers of illegal immigrants have found their way into the country.a legal immigrant· Two thirds of legal immigrants to the country came from Europe and Canada.a recent immigrant· The majority of workers at the factory are recent immigrants.European/African etc immigrants· There has been a recent increase in the number of African immigrants.a first-generation immigrant (=someone who is an immigrant, or whose parents were immigrants)· Her parents were first-generation immigrants from Poland.a second-generation immigrant (=someone whose parents or grandparents were immigrants)· These boys are second-generation immigrants who grew up speaking English.phrasesa wave/influx of immigrants (=a large number of them)· A new wave of immigrants arrived in the 1950s.a flood of immigrants (=a very large number of immigrants that arrive at the same time)· He suggested the country would experience a flood of immigrants.immigrant + NOUNan immigrant family· A quarter of the school’s students are from immigrant families.immigrant workers· Many immigrant workers had to live in deprived areas.an immigrant community· There are shops catering for the various immigrant communities.the immigrant population· The immigrant population increased rapidly during the 1970s.
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