mass noun
1- the state of being barred from one's native country, typically for political or punitive reasons流放; 流亡; 放逐:
he knew now that he would die in exile.
他现在才知道自己会在流亡中死去。
1.1
- count noun a person who lives away from their native country, either from choice or compulsion被流放者; 流亡国外者; 背井离乡者:
the return of political exiles.
政治流亡者的回归。
1.2
with obj.(一般作be exiled)
- expel and bar (someone) from their native country, typically for political or punitive reasons流放; 放逐; 使流亡:
a corrupt dictator who had been exiled from his country
流亡海外的腐败独裁者
he was exiled to Tasmania in 1849
他于1849年被流放到了塔斯马尼亚
as adj. exiled supporters of the exiled King.流亡国王的支持者。
词源
Middle English: the noun partly from Old French exil 'banishment' and partly from Old French exile 'banished person'; the verb from Old French exiler ; all based on Latin exilium 'banishment', from exul 'banished person'.