citizen
柯林斯詞典
1. N-COUNT Someone who is a citizen of a particular country is legally accepted as belonging to that country. 公民
...American citizens. …美國(guó)公民。
2. N-COUNT The citizens of a town or city are the people who live there. 市民
...the citizens of Buenos Aires. …布宜諾斯艾利斯的市民。
3. →see also senior citizen
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citizen /?s?t?z?n/ (citizens)
劍橋詞典
- a person who is a member of a particular country and who has rights because of being born there or because of being given rights , or a person who lives in a particular town or city
- 'Senior citizen' is a euphemism for 'old person '.
- He entered the United States in 1988 as a permanent resident because of his marriage to a U.S. citizen.
- She accused the government of trampling on the needs and rights of the ordinary citizen.
- She behaved as any upright citizen would have under the circumstances .
- She is regarded as an upstanding citizen in the local community . 返回 citizen
公民；市民，城鎮(zhèn)居民
The interests of British citizens living abroad are protected by the British Embassy. 僑居國(guó)外的英國(guó)公民的利益受英國(guó)大使館的保護(hù)。
He applied to become an American citizen. 他申請(qǐng)成為美國(guó)公民。
The citizens of Moscow woke up this morning to find they had a new government . 今天早上，莫斯科市民一覺(jué)醒來(lái)發(fā)現(xiàn)他們有了一個(gè)新政府。
Old people are just treated like second-class citizens (= unimportant people ). 老年人只被當(dāng)作二等公民對(duì)待。
He reassured people that law-abiding citizens (= people who do not break the law ) would have nothing to fear from the enquiries . 他寬慰人們說(shuō)遵紀(jì)守法的公民對(duì)質(zhì)詢沒(méi)有什么可害怕的。
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