| 词组 | emigrate, immigrate |
| 释义 | emigrate, immigrate Emigrate and immigrate make a case in which English has two words where it could easily have made do with only one. The two words have the same essential meaning—"to leave one country to live in another"—and differ only in emphasis or point of view: emigrate stressing leaving, and immigrate stressing entering. A large number of handbooks, from MacCracken & Sandison 1917 to Janis 1984, warn us not to confuse the two. Our evidence shows that almost no one does, at least in edited prose. A handy clue to identity is provided by the prepositions each takes. Emigrate tends to go with from: • ... Ezekiel Wapshot, who emigrated from England aboard the Arbella in 1630 —John Cheever, The Wapshot Chronicle, 1957 Bernstein 1965 recommends only from. However, when the writer is thinking in terms of the new country, to is also used: • ... this difficult writer, who was recently permitted to emigrate to the West —Patricia Blake, N. Y. Times Book Rev., 29 Feb. 1976 • He was a Dane, a big, yellow-haired, outgoing man in his late forties, and a widower. He had emigrated to the United States after his wife's death —Russell Baker, Growing Up, 1982 Immigrate, with its stress on entering, usually is used with to and into: • ... left the family farm there ... to immigrate to the United States —Current Biography, May 1965 • ... the foreign scientists and engineers who immigrate into the United States —Robert M. Hutchins, Center Mag, March 1968 Immigrate is sometimes used with from. Just as emigrate to can be understood as "to leave there and come to", immigrate from can be understood as "to come here from": • Pettigrew comes from Richmond, Virginia, but his father immigrated from Scotland —Godfrey Hodgson, Atlantic, March 1973 Distinguishing these words may be less of a problem than is often suggested, as your meaning is essentially the same no matter which you use. To emphasize the notion of leaving, use emigrate with from; to emphasize the notion of arriving, use immigrate with to or into. |
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