Ascians
英文词源
- Ascians (n.)
- inhabitants of the torrid zone, who "haue the Sunne twice euery yeere in their zenith, and then they make no shaddowes at all" [Nathanael Carpenter, "Geographie Delineated forth in Two Bookes," 1635], from Medieval Latin Ascii, from Greek askioi, from a- "not, without," privative prefix (see a- (3)), + skia "shade, shadow" (see shine (v.)).
双语例句
- 1. Traditionally young Asians in Britain have gravitated towards medicine, law and engineering.
- 英国的亚裔年轻人通常被吸引到医学、法律及工程专业。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. British Asians have begun a campaign calling for an end to discrimination.
- 亚裔英国人发起了一项呼吁消除种族歧视的运动。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. Most of Asians live on rice.
- 多数亚洲人以大米为主食.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 4. Many Asians are migrating to the West.
- 许多亚洲人移民去了西方国家.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 5. Most of Asians are yellow.
- 大多数亚洲人都是黄皮肤.
来自《简明英汉词典》