1680s, from French refugié, noun use of past participle of refugier "to take shelter, protect," from Old French refuge (see refuge). First applied to French Huguenots who migrated after the revocation (1685) of the Edict of Nantes. The word meant "one seeking asylum," till 1914, when it evolved to mean "one fleeing home" (first applied in this sense to civilians in Flanders heading west to escape fighting in World War I). In Australian slang from World War II, reffo.
雙語例句
1. Many of the refugee villages are in isolated areas.
很多難民村落都在偏遠(yuǎn)地區(qū)。
來自柯林斯例句
2. Troops tried to set up a lookout post inside a refugee camp.
部隊(duì)試圖在難民營(yíng)里設(shè)一個(gè)瞭望哨。
來自柯林斯例句
3. Refugee workers said such action was a violation of medical ethics.
難民工作者說那種行為是對(duì)醫(yī)德的褻瀆。
來自柯林斯例句
4. Overcrowding and poor sanitary conditions led to disease in the refugee camps.