| 单词 | migrant |
| 释义 | migrantWord family noun migration migrant migrationistmigratoradjective migratory migrationalverb migrate Animals, Birds mi·grant /ˈmaɪɡrənt/ ●○○ AWL noun [countableC] 1 TRAVELsomeone who goes to live in another area or country, especially in order to find work 〔尤指为了寻找工作而迁移的〕移民，移居者 → emigrant, immigrant migrant worker/labourer A lot of factory work is done by migrant workers. 许多工厂的工作都是流动工人干的。 economic migrant (=someone who goes to live in another country because they are likely to find a better job there) 经济移民 2. HBAHBBa bird or animal that travels regularly from one part of the world to another 候鸟；迁徙动物 n COLLOCATIONS migrant + NOUN a migrant worker The strawberries are picked by migrant workers. migrant labourer British EnglishBrE, migrant laborer American EnglishAmE The centre houses 50 migrant labourers. migrant labour British EnglishBrE, migrant labor American EnglishAmE (=work done by migrants) Many farms rely on migrant labour. a migrant population (=the migrants who live in a particular place) The town has a large migrant population. the flow of migrants (=the movement of people to or from a place) the increasing flow of migrants into California an influx of migrants (=the arrival of people in a particular place) adjectivesThe growth of towns was due to an influx of migrants from the villages. an illegal migrant Thousands of illegal migrants were caught trying to cross the sea to England. an economic migrant (=someone who goes to another country to find a better job) They are economic migrants, escaping terrible poverty in their home country. a rural migrant (=someone who moves from a country area to a city) Rural migrants end up in the slums of Brasilia. a new/recent migrant verbsSome of the recent migrants have returned to their homes as the fighting finished. a migrant comes from/to a place A majority of the migrants had come from this region. attract migrants (=make migrants want to come to a place) The settlement attracted new migrants and it expanded quickly. Examples from the Corpus migrant• 400 migrants won the right to stay in the country yesterday, after a ten-year battle.• Many of the city's poorest residents are migrants from rural areas.• And this economy persists to a substantial degree, courtesy of both the climate and exploitable migrant and illegal-alien labor.• Some had barracks and medical centres for migrants.• Their rank-and-file soon settled down abroad like most non-ideological migrants transferring their revolutionary energies to the anti-slavery campaign.• Perpetual migrants, they have had to find new housing for their center several times.• Time to be looking for summer migrants.• You see, often there is no food left for the local herds after the migrants go through.• The vast majority of these migrants stayed broadly within the science, maths and engineering fields.• Historically, California has welcomed migrants from other states and nations. economic migrant• In general their requests for asylum are rejected on the grounds that they are simply economic migrants.• The economic migrant is also the political refugee.• I have no problem with economic migrants. From Longman Business Dictionary migrantmi·grant /ˈmaɪgrənt/ noun [countableC] someone who goes to another area or country, especially in order to find work The work is usually done by low-paid migrant workers. a system to regulate migrant labor in California |
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