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- of or relating to a population subgroup (within a larger or dominant national or cultural group) with a common national or cultural tradition（与）种族（有关）的; （与）民族（有关）的：
ethnic and cultural rights and traditions
民族和文化权利与传统
leaders of ethnic communities.
种族社区的领袖。
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- of or relating to national and cultural origins（与）民族和文化渊源（有关）的：
we recruit our employees regardless of ethnic origin.
我们招募员工不分种族。
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- denoting origin by birth or descent rather than by present nationality血统的, 出身的：
ethnic Albanians in Kosovo.
科索沃的阿尔巴尼亚人。
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- characteristic of or belonging to a non-Western cultural tradition有非西方文化传统特征的; 属于非西方文化传统的：
cheap ethnic dresses
廉价的非西式连衣裙
folk and ethnic music.
民间异族音乐。
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- archaic neither Christian nor Jewish; pagan or heathen〈古〉既非基督教亦非犹太教的; 异教徒的。
- chiefly N. Amer. a member of an ethnic minority〈主北美〉少数民族成员。
派生词
ethnically
adverb丹麦在民族文化渊源上是个斯堪的纳维亚国家。
词源
late Middle English (denoting a person not of the Christian or Jewish faith)： via ecclesiastical Latin from Greek ethnikos 'heathen', from ethnos 'nation'. Current senses date from the 19th cent.