词汇 | southerner |
释义 | southerner noun[ C ] (alsoSoutherner)uk /ˈsʌð.ə.nər/ us /ˈsʌð.ɚ.nɚ/ a person who comes from the south of a country: 南方人 I could tell from his accent that he was a southerner.根据他的口音,我判断他是一个南方人。 Towns & regions: parts of countries at local/national levelphrase bicoastal blue zone Breton city state countywide easterner green belt interterritorial metropolitan borough metropolitan county multi-county non-county northerner northwest province sector super-regional territory westerner southerner | American Dictionarysoutherner noun[ C ] us/ˈsʌð·ər·nər/ a person from the southern part of a country, or (in the US) a person from the South Examples of southernersoutherner If the party had remained committed to color-blind policies, it might have survived the mass exodus of white southerners. It is a heritage of which southerners can be proud. These young men rather prefer urban employment that southerners do not even undertake. After decades of local work rules, southerners were accustomed to more stringent controls on welfare recipients' labor. His researches and travels had reinforced his instinctive appreciation, as a southerner, for the great variety and individuality of southern communities and southern people. To be sure, southerners were not alone in seeking to circumscribe labor legislation so as to keep agricultural labor unregulated by the central state. His primary concern was for the tenuousness of the union, and he did not want to do anything to alienate a large group of southerners. The southerners were grateful to see an end to the northern slaving predations of their land. Prior to then, southerners had blocked all such legislation through deft parliamentary manoeuvring coupled, when necessary, to filibusters. Such intrusion in the past had upset the social customs and race relations of southerners. Conservative southerners were already frustrated by the fact that over five percent of southerners were receiving welfare at the time. It cannot be stated too strongly that recognition of the distinctive social relations of particular groups of southerners, as with any other peoples, is a necessary prerequisite for effective intervention. On the other hand, households in the northeastern and western regions paid a significantly higher price for bananas, about 4 and 9 cents per pound, respectively, than the southerners. Raichur, however, did not long remain in southerners' hands. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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