释义 |
NegroNe‧gro /ˈniːɡrəʊ $ -ɡroʊ/ noun (plural Negroes) [countable] old-fashioned NegroOrigin: 1500-1600 Spanish, Portuguese, from negro ‘black’, from Latin niger - Blues singers do well in Ireland, as Celts have a feeling for Negro music.
- If the Negro was equal in the eyes of the law, the men wearing badges needed glasses.
- Max is a jazz musician, a black cat with Negro features, who owns a talking saxophone, his Alto Ego.
- Overnight Lucky had become an oddball Negro.
- Sergio parked by the sundial, and walked to the front door where a painted wooden Negro stood in attendance.
- The Negro is not some one to be laughed at, Mr Foster.
- The Negro of tragedy taken away from his family and home.
- Zachary Macaulay's 1823 pamphlet, Negro Slavery, was a good example.
a word for a black person, usually considered offensive—Negro adjective |