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na.tiveH5neI7tIv, $-tIvn [C]土生土长者; 本地人; 本国人The missing man is believed to be a native of Monaco (= person born in Monaco).据认为，失踪的人是摩纳哥当地人。(humorous) He asked me in the pub if I was a native, so I confessed I was from Coventry, not a local girl.他在酒店里问我是不是本地人，我承认我是从考文垂来的，不是本地女孩。Native is also used of a person who lives in a simple and traditional way in a country considered to be less developed than the speaker's own country. This usage is increasingly considered offensive.土人，土著a native village土著村落native customs and traditions土著习俗与传统In this small African city, the white European workers didn't mix with 'the natives, ?as they called the local people.在这个非洲小城，欧洲白人工人不和‘土著人’（他们这样称当地人）交往。(infml disapproving or humorous) If a person who is in a foreign country goes native, they begin to live and/or dress like the people who live there.归化为当地人The first guy they sent out to do a deal with the local people went native, took a wife and never came back.他们派出去跟当地人做生意的第一个人被当地化了，在当地娶了老婆，不再回来。
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