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citizen

noun
 
🔊/ˈsɪtɪzn/
🔊/ˈsɪtɪzn/
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  1.  
     a person who has the legal right to belong to a particular country公民
    • The defeat of the president did not change the lives of ordinary citizens for the better.总统的失败并没有改变普通公民的生活。
    • an economic slowdown that has left millions of our fellow citizens unemployed经济放缓使数百万同胞失业
    • She's Italian by birth but is now an Australian citizen.她生于意大利，但现在是澳大利亚公民。🔊🔊
    • Polish citizens living in other parts of the European Union居住在欧盟其他地区的波兰公民
    • the government's failure to address the concerns of the average citizen 政府未能解决普通民众的担忧
    • In light of the unrest in the country, the US embassy has urged private citizens to leave.鉴于该国动乱，美国大使馆敦促私人公民离开。
    • I became a naturalized American citizen when I was 18.我18岁那年成为一名入籍美国公民。
    • He said the primary responsibility of a state is to protect its citizens from attack.他说，一个国家的主要责任是保护其公民不受攻击。
    • This shows that the government respects the rights of citizens.这表明政府尊重公民的权利。
    • citizen of something Some politicians seem to be treating the citizens of this country with contempt.一些政客似乎在鄙视这个国家的公民。
    compare subject (6)
    Extra Examples
    • They are fighting for acceptance as full citizens of the country.他们为争取成为这个国家的正式公民而斗争。
    • Citizens of other European countries do not need work permits.其他欧洲国家的公民不需要工作许可。
    • He later became a naturalized citizen of the United States.后来他成为美国的归化公民。
    • The issues that interested most French citizens were domestic rather than foreign.大多数法国公民感兴趣的问题是国内问题，而不是国外问题。
    Topics People in societyb2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • full
    • naturalized
    • British
    • …
    phrases
    • somebody’s fellow citizens
    See full entry
  2.  
     a person who lives in a particular place居民；市民
    • When you're old, people treat you like a second-class citizen.当你年迈时，人们会把你当成二等公民对待。🔊🔊
    • There have been meetings of concerned citizens over proposed development plans.已经举行了有关拟议的发展计划的有关公民会议。
    • citizen of something the decent, law-abiding citizens of this city这个城市体面，守法的公民
    • the citizens of Budapest布达佩斯市民
    see also active citizen, senior citizen
    Extra Examples
    • Our job is to protect the citizens of Belfast and make it a safe city to live in.我们的工作是保护贝尔法斯特的公民，并使之成为一个安全的城市。
    • minorities who felt they had been treated as second-class citizens感觉被当作二等公民对待的少数民族
    • This terrible crime has shocked all law-abiding citizens.这桩可怕的罪行震惊了所有守法公民。
    • She is a prominent citizen of the town.她是那个城市的杰出市民。
    • Gay people have had enough of being treated as second-class citizens.同性恋者受够了二等公民待遇。
    • It's not clear how the new law will affect the ordinary citizen.新法将对普通公民产生怎样的影响还不清楚。
    • The king was visiting France as a private citizen.国王正以平民身分访问法国。
    • lawsuits brought against private citizens针对平民的诉讼
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • full
    • naturalized
    • British
    • …
    phrases
    • somebody’s fellow citizens
    See full entry
    3. compare subject
    Word OriginMiddle English: from Anglo-Norman French citezein, alteration (probably influenced by deinzein ‘denizen’) of Old French citeain, based on Latin civitas ‘city’, from civis ‘citizen’.