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词汇 boat-people
释义 boat people
noun[ plural ]
uk /ˈbəʊt ˌpiː.pəl/ us /ˈboʊt ˌpiː.pəl/
people who have left their country by boat, usually hoping to finding safety in another place(乘船出逃的)难民,船民
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boat people
plural noun
us/ˈboʊt ˌpi·pəl/
people who have left their country by boat, usually in the hope of finding safety in another place

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I looked at that matter when we first had the problem with the boatpeople.
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Asylum would be offered by those countries where boatpeople first arrived to allow time to arrange resettlement in third countries.
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In the 1970s, international politics involved the boatpeople, petrodollars, and shuttle diplomacy.
The two chapters provide a sensitive insight into the human, social, and ideological interstices between the trauma of the ' ' boatpeople ' ' and the types of musical productions.
Some of them have escaped for their lives and have become those tragic people known as the boatpeople.
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However, now several shipping lines are deliberately avoiding sea routes where they are likely to encounter boatpeople.
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We cannot expect it to receive this year the same number of boatpeople—over 30,000—that they received last year.
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Thirdly, what international discussions are taking place on the boatpeople and when will they be resumed?
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We shall easily absorb 10,000 boatpeople; it is right that we should do so, and we look forward to doing so.
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We have a particular problem because of the boatpeople.
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They have recently submitted proposals for projects in the areas from which most of the boatpeople have come.
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We have very high unemployment there, but the boatpeople were welcomed with open arms because we were aware of their grave problems.
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But it did not even interest the media or the organisations formerly so ready to organise solidarity campaigns for the boatpeople.
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I would repeat that that total includes 80,000 former boatpeople.
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Of that 66, the 56 boatpeople among them were given absolute discharges with no conviction recorded.
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