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单词 immigrate
释义
immigrate
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v

When a person immigrates, he or she moves to a new country. During the great wave of immigration between 1880 and 1924, over 25 million Europeans immigrated to the United States.
Many immigrants make significant contributions to their adopted countries. Consider Albert Einstein, the greatest physicist of the twentieth century, who immigrated to America from Germany, or the Russian-born New Yorker Irving Berlin, who wrote some of the most popular songs in the American songbook, including “White Christmas” and “God Bless America." The word immigrate comes from the Latin imigrare, which means “to move in.”
CHOOSE YOUR WORDS
emigrate / immigrate / migrate

Going somewhere? Emigrate means to leave one's country to live in another. Immigrate is to come into another country to live permanently. Migrate is to move, like bird in the winter.

The choice between emigrate,immigrate, and migrate depends on the sentence's point of view. Emigrate is to immigrate as go is to come. If the sentence is looking at the point of departure, use emigrate. The point of arrival? Immigrate. Talking about the actual process of moving? Use migrate.

Emigrate means you are exiting your current homeland:

People are always saying there's no quality of life in Russia, and everyone wants to emigrate," he said. (New York Times)

Immigrate means you are coming in to a country to live:

Citizens from 17 European Union countries were given freedom to immigrate to Switzerland in 2007. (Business Week)

Migrate means to move, like those crazy Monarch butterflies that migrate from Canada to Mexico and back. It doesn't have to be a permanent move, but migrate is more than a weekend away, and it's not just for butterflies. "Snowbirds" are people who migrate south for the winter and come back north when the snow melts, or someone might migrate to another part of the country for work or to be closer to family. Here are some examples:

Nevertheless, it has often been assumed that dinosaurs did migrate.(Scientific American)

People are prepared to travel and migrate within America. (Business Week)

If you have ants in your pants and you have to move, remember:

Emigrate is from the point of view of the departure. Think exit.

Immigrate is from the point of view of the destination. Think come in.

Migrate is all about the moving. Think move.

WORD FAMILY
immigrate: immigrated, immigrates, immigrating, immigration+/immigration: immigrations
USAGE EXAMPLES
One of the founders of the lab was born and trained in China before immigrating to the United States.
Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016)
Felly Cervantes, 53, attended her first Rose Parade in 1990, just months after immigrating to California from Mexico.
Los Angeles Times(Jan 02, 2017)
Wong was born in China before immigrating to the Bay Area at age 9.
Reuters(Dec 31, 2016)
1v come into a new country and change residency
Many people immigrated at the beginning of the 20th century
Ant|Hyper
emigrate
leave one's country of residence for a new one
migrate, transmigrate
move from one country or region to another and settle there
2v migrate to a new environment
only few plants can immigrate to the island
Hyper
migrate, transmigrate
move from one country or region to another and settle there
3v introduce or send as immigrants
Britain immigrated many colonists to America
Hyper
bring in, introduce
bring in a new person or object into a familiar environment
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