| 词组 | emigration |
| 释义 | emigration ◊ 'emigrate' If you emigrate, you leave your own country and go to live permanently in another country. He received permission to emigrate to Canada. He had emigrated from Germany in the early 1920's. ◊ 'emigration' You refer to the process by which people leave their own country in order to live somewhere else as emigration. ...new laws on emigration. ...the encouragement given to peasant emigration. ◊ 'emigrant' People who emigrate are called emigrants. Thousands of emigrants boarded Cunard ships for the New World. ◊ 'immigrant' When emigrants arrive in the country where they intend to live, they are referred to as immigrants. ...a Russian immigrant. A ship carrying 54 illegal immigrants sailed into the harbour yesterday. ◊ 'immigration' You refer to the process by which people come to live in a country as immigration. She asked for his views on immigration. ...immigration procedures. ◊ 'migrate' When people migrate, they temporarily move to another place, usually a city or another country, in order to find work. The only solution people can see is to migrate. Millions have migrated to the cities. ◊ 'migration' This process is called migration. ...mass migration into cities. Migration for work is accelerating in the Third World. ◊ 'migrant' People who migrate are called migrants or migrant workers. ...migrants looking for a place to live. In South America alone there are three million migrant workers. ◊ another meaning of 'migrate' When birds or animals migrate, they move from one place to another at the same time each year. Texas is the first landfall of most birds migrating north. Every spring they migrate towards the coast. |
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