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 migrant ['maigrәnt]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 候鸟, 移居者

[法] 移居者




    migrant
    [ noun ]
    1. traveler who moves from one region or country to another

    2. <noun.person>
    [ adj ]
    1. habitually moving from place to place especially in search of seasonal work

    2. <adj.all>
      appalled by the social conditions of migrant life
      migratory workers


    Migrant \Mi"grant\, a. [L. migrans, p. pr. of migrare. See
    {Migrate}.]
    Migratory. --Sir T. Browne.


    Migrant \Mi"grant\, n.
    1. A migratory bird, person, or other animal.

    2. A person who changes residence frequently in search of
    employment, especially farm labor, such as harvesting
    crops seasonally; also called {migrant laborer} or
    {migrant worker}. Sometimes the migrant worker is not a
    resident of the country in which the work is performed.
    [PJC]

    1. Born in Sekhukuneland in northern Transvaal on July 26 1924, the son of a migrant laborer, Motsoaledi worked in Johannesburg as a servant, and in boot and furniture factories.
    2. Many migrant children never catch up in school, so they drop out.
    3. A bus plunged down a 10-foot embankment after its brakes failed on a hill Monday, injuring 23 migrant farm workers and the driver, officials said.
    4. The Star newspaper reported Thursday that masked white men joined a group of blacks in attacking a Sebokeng migrant workers' hostel before dawn Tuesday.
    5. So that is why I know how to behave.' He blamed the latest upsurge in racist attacks not on the existence of a large Turkish migrant worker population, but on the failure to tackle the problem of 'economic asylum seekers' flooding into the country.
    6. Twelve members of migrant worker families have died after eating poison mushrooms picked in southern Turkey, doctors said Thursday.
    7. The number of migrant laborers in the city is increasing daily.
    8. This week, the Smiths employed 40 migrant workers, compared with the 80 usually hired at this time.
    9. He said his talks with Bush would cover free trade, but not migrant workers or democratic reforms in Mexico.
    10. Hundreds of migrant workers who spent the summer living in tents near the nation's capital are pulling up stakes as campground closings force them back to the high unemployment of their home states.
    11. Unable to live off the land any more, some have become migrant day laborers.
    12. And growers have pressed all migrant farm workers into service to help harvest the fruit from groves hit hard when the overnight temperature plunged as low as the high teens last Sunday and Monday.
    13. Moreover, he says, the state has an interest as well, because crops that rely on migrant work reap $85 million in annual revenue.
    14. Sikh gunmen fired into a group of migrant workers at a wedding celebration in Haryana state Saturday night, killing 13 people and wounding at least 25 others, police said.
    15. Police say 65 migrant laborers have been killed by Sikh gunmen in the past week.
    16. A meeting hall was damaged Wednesday before residents of a migrant workers hostel were scheduled to gather there.
    17. So if British optimists want to take the Brady line, they must nominate a migrant. And pessimists must come up with a bird of ill omen.
    18. Muzi is a Zulu in alien territory, a migrant in a settled township, and needs no time to think when asked what he hates most about living in a workers' hostel.
    19. But in June, the INS grudgingly relaxed its procedures for allowing migrant farm workers into the U.S.
    20. He said he couldn't identify "notable failures," though he considered lack of much progress on a migrant labor-camp regulation as a "disappointment."
    21. ANC leader Nelson Mandela said Thursday the government should place soldiers and police around migrant workers hostels in the townships where much of the violence has occurred.
    22. The 39-year-old activist, whose release has been demanded by many international labor groups, testified about his impoverished childhood and experiences as an illegal migrant worker after he moved to the Johannesburg area in the early 1970s.
    23. Wynwood was one of the first large Hispanic neighborhoods in Florida in the post-World War II era, populated mainly by Puerto Rican migrant workers.
    24. He also visited two squatter camps and an all-male hostel for migrant workers.
    25. And we've still got migrant workers as the lowest rung of the social and economic ladder.
    26. Delmarva Rural Ministries, Inc. of Dover, Del., for its classes serving migrant workers and migrant workers.
    27. Delmarva Rural Ministries, Inc. of Dover, Del., for its classes serving migrant workers and migrant workers.
    28. The Geneva-based United Nations agency urged the world to heed the plight of migrant workers in the Persian Gulf region.
    29. In Sebokeng, south of the city, soldiers opened fire Tuesday on a crowd outside a migrant workers' hostel, leaving 11 dead.
    30. "They should have been more fair in trying to bring relief to these people," said Bustamante, himself a former migrant worker.
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