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单词 déraciné
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Definition of déraciné in English:

déraciné

adjective deʀasinedeɪˈrasɪneɪdāˌräsiˈnā
  • (of a person) uprooted from their natural environment; deracinated.

    the self-consciousness of déraciné Americans

    那些背井离乡的美国移民局促不安的感觉。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He saw the decadence that overtook Indian culture, but he admits he was déraciné.
    • "I was déraciné; an exile from the Jewish community and, I felt, not really accepted in the Christian community."
    • Henry James was a difficult case for him to contemplate because each, in his own way, was 'déraciné'.
    • He talked of Les Cosmopolites and the literary scene in France before the war, of their obsession with foreign travel… the almost sexual thrill of being out of your own country: an outsider, déraciné, worldly, nomadic.
noundeʀasinedeɪˈrasɪneɪdāˌräsiˈnā
  • A person who has been or feels deracinated.

    背井离乡者,自觉无所依靠者

    he became a déraciné, a nomad
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It follows that because he is spiritually alienated from his society, he is a déraciné, an individual without roots, going from one locale to another.
    • Conrad, of course, was a déraciné, which no doubt counts for a good deal in the intensity with which he renders his favourite theme of isolation.
    • Maurice, on reaching the age to choose a career, deliberately turned towards the provinces - he who was a déraciné, born of an Alsatian father and a Savoyard mother, and educated first at Paris, then at Dijon.

Origin

French, 'uprooted'.

Definition of déraciné in US English:

déraciné

adjectivedāˌräsiˈnā
  • Uprooted or displaced from one's geographical or social environment.

    背井离乡的

    the self-consciousness of déraciné Americans

    那些背井离乡的美国移民局促不安的感觉。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • "I was déraciné; an exile from the Jewish community and, I felt, not really accepted in the Christian community."
    • Henry James was a difficult case for him to contemplate because each, in his own way, was 'déraciné'.
    • He saw the decadence that overtook Indian culture, but he admits he was déraciné.
    • He talked of Les Cosmopolites and the literary scene in France before the war, of their obsession with foreign travel… the almost sexual thrill of being out of your own country: an outsider, déraciné, worldly, nomadic.
noundāˌräsiˈnā
  • A person who has been or feels displaced.

    背井离乡者,自觉无所依靠者

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Conrad, of course, was a déraciné, which no doubt counts for a good deal in the intensity with which he renders his favourite theme of isolation.
    • It follows that because he is spiritually alienated from his society, he is a déraciné, an individual without roots, going from one locale to another.
    • Maurice, on reaching the age to choose a career, deliberately turned towards the provinces - he who was a déraciné, born of an Alsatian father and a Savoyard mother, and educated first at Paris, then at Dijon.

Origin

French, ‘uprooted’.

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