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ethnic

adjective
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🔊/ˈeθnɪk/
🔊/ˈeθnɪk/
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  1.  
    connected with or belonging to a nation or people that shares a cultural tradition民族的；种族的
    • ethnic groups/communities族群；种族社区
    • ethnic strife/tensions/violence (= between people from different races or peoples)种族冲突／紧张形势／暴力
    • There are continuing ethnic tensions in the region.该地区持续存在种族紧张局势。
    • ethnic Albanians living in Germany生活在德国的阿尔巴尼亚族人
    • The country is divided along ethnic lines.这个国家按民族划分界线。
    see also multi-ethnic
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    • The conference strongly condemned the practice of ethnic cleansing.大会强烈谴责了种族清洗行为。
    • The school has 70% of ethnic minority students.学校有70％的少数民族学生。
    • This region of Bulgaria has a large ethnic Turkish population.保加利亚的这一地区有很多土耳其族人。
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    typical of a country or culture that is very different from modern Western culture and therefore interesting for people in Western countries具有民族特色的；异国风味的
    • ethnic clothes/jewellery/cooking具有民族特色的服装／珠宝首饰／烹调
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    • There has been an explosion in the popularity of ethnic crafts.民族工艺品的流行已经爆炸式增长。
    • There was a stall selling ethnic jewellery from Afghanistan.有一个摊位销售来自阿富汗的民族特色珠宝首饰。
    • the rising popularity of ethnic foods民族食品越来越受欢迎
    3. Word Originlate 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.

ethnic

noun
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 (especially North American English, old-fashioned, often offensive)
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  1. a person from an ethnic minority少数民族的人
    • states where there are a large number of ethnics有大量种族的州
    Topics People in societyc2
    Word Originlate 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.